1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462051703321

Autore

Apel Dora <1952->

Titolo

War culture and the contest of images [[electronic resource] /] / Dora Apel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, New Jersey, : Rutgers University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-65736-8

0-8135-5396-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

New directions in international studies

Disciplina

701/.03

Soggetti

Art and war

War and society

Art and society

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- 9780813553962-002 -- 9780813553962-003 -- 9780813553962-004 -- 9780813553962-005 -- 9780813553962-006 -- 9780813553962-007 -- 9780813553962-008 -- 9780813553962-009 -- 9780813553962-010 -- 9780813553962-011 -- 9780813553962-012 -- 9780813553962-013

Sommario/riassunto

War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, video games, reenactment, and social media images. Simultaneously, she explores the merging of photojournalism and artistic practices, the effects of visual framing, and the construction of both sanctioned and counter-hegemonic narratives in a global contest of images. As a result of the global visual culture in which anyone may produce as well as consume public imagery, the wide variety of visual and documentary practices present realities that would otherwise be invisible or officially off-limits. In our digital era, the prohibition and control of images has become nearly



impossible to maintain. Using carefully chosen case studies—such as Krzysztof Wodiczko’s video projections and public works in response to 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the performance works of Coco Fusco and Regina Galindo, and the practices of Israeli and Palestinian artists—Apel posits that contemporary war images serve as mediating agents in social relations and as a source of protection or refuge for those robbed of formal or state-sanctioned citizenship. While never suggesting that documentary practices are objective translations of reality, Apel shows that they are powerful polemical tools both for legitimizing war and for making its devastating effects visible. In modern warfare and in the accompanying culture of war that capitalism produces as a permanent feature of modern society, she asserts that the contest of images is as critical as the war on the ground.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387728703316

Autore

F. L

Titolo

Irelands sad lamentation [[electronic resource] ] : discovering its present danger in some remarkable passages which have happened since the discovery of the horrid Popish Plot : in a letter from a person of honour to his friend in London, upon the dissolution of the late Parliament

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London printed, : [s.n.], 1680

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([2] p.)

Soggetti

Popish Plot, 1678

Ireland History 1660-1688

Great Britain History Charles II, 1660-1685

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dated and signed at end: Dublin, January 1680. F.L.

Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113