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Record Nr.

UNINA9910555036603321

Autore

Ingram Alan

Titolo

Geopolitics and the event : rethinking Britain's Iraq war through art / / Alan Ingram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2019

ISBN

1-119-42604-9

1-119-42603-0

1-119-42601-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages)

Collana

RGS-IBG Book Series

Disciplina

704.9/499567044341

Soggetti

Iraq War, 2003-2011

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Participation, British

Art and geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Thinking geopolitics through the event -- Artworks as evental assemblages -- Geopolitics at the museum -- Iraq beyond Iraq -- The geopolitical aesthetics of oil -- Photomontage as geopolitical form -- Geopolitical bodies -- Conclusions -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Geopolitics and the Event: Rethinking Britain's Iraq War Through Art offers a reappraisal of one of the most contentious and consequential events of the early twenty-first century. Drawing on analysis of dozens of art works and exhibitions and on interdisciplinary literatures and debates, the book advances an original perspective on Britain's role in the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq and maps out new ways of thinking about geopolitics through art. Examining the work of artists, curators and activists in light of Britain's role as a colonial power in Iraq and the importance of oil, the book highlights the diverse ways in which the war has been appropriated creatively, while reflecting on the significance, limits and dilemmas of art as a form of critical intervention. Written at the intersections between geography, politics and aesthetics, Geopolitics and the Event challenges conventional accounts of the Iraq war and questions the complex implications of art in colonialism and modernity"--