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Border Wall Aesthetics : Artworks in Border Spaces / Elisa Ganivet.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Image ; 157Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839447772
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700
LOC classification:
  • N72.P6 G36 2019.
  • GT3913.N72 .G365 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. The history of border wall aesthetics -- PART 1. Aesthetics in the 20th century -- Chapter 2. The Berlin Wall -- PART 2. Aesthetics in the 21st century -- Chapter 3. The separation barrier between Israel and Palestine -- Chapter 4. The secure border between Mexico and the United States -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations
Summary: 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we live in a time of globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, 70 new border walls have been built in this period - put together, they would cover the total circumference of the Earth. While governments offer manifold justifications for building these separation barriers, they invariably attract the attention of artists. Is it merely the lure of transgression, however, that attracts them - or is there a deeper significance in the artistic encounter with border walls? And which artistic strategies do these artists employ to approach them?In order to address these questions, Élisa Ganivet revisits the history of border wall aesthetics and compares more recent border-related works by 100 artists, including Joseph Beuys (Berlin), Banksy (Israel-Palestine), and Frida Kahlo (Mexico-US). Through art and thus beyond art, we understand the flaws and shortcomings of supposedly well-oiled systems.With a preface by Élisabeth Vallet.
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. The history of border wall aesthetics -- PART 1. Aesthetics in the 20th century -- Chapter 2. The Berlin Wall -- PART 2. Aesthetics in the 21st century -- Chapter 3. The separation barrier between Israel and Palestine -- Chapter 4. The secure border between Mexico and the United States -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations

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30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we live in a time of globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, 70 new border walls have been built in this period - put together, they would cover the total circumference of the Earth. While governments offer manifold justifications for building these separation barriers, they invariably attract the attention of artists. Is it merely the lure of transgression, however, that attracts them - or is there a deeper significance in the artistic encounter with border walls? And which artistic strategies do these artists employ to approach them?In order to address these questions, Élisa Ganivet revisits the history of border wall aesthetics and compares more recent border-related works by 100 artists, including Joseph Beuys (Berlin), Banksy (Israel-Palestine), and Frida Kahlo (Mexico-US). Through art and thus beyond art, we understand the flaws and shortcomings of supposedly well-oiled systems.With a preface by Élisabeth Vallet.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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