عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
T818
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Contested collectivities: Europe reimagined by contemporary artists
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor: Smith, Terry
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Pittsburgh: United States -- Pennsylvania
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
236 Pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This dissertation studies a particular current of contemporary art, which is devoted to exploring positive models for an intercultural imaginary in Europe. In recent times, there has been much contestation over a European identity following decolonization, mass immigration, globalization, and the breaking down of political boundaries on the continent. Numerous artists are scrutinizing a symbolic-visual realm increasingly shaped by stereotypes, misinformation, and distortions concerning "foreigners" and immigrants. This dissertation examines the work of three artists and art groups--the filmmaker and video installation artist Harun Farocki, the public installation artist Thomas Hirschhorn, and the transnational art collective, "Henry VIII's Wives." Each explores various forms, such as film, television, the Internet, radio, and so on, in order to probe how the media shapes public opinion and group identification. Through these three cases, the dissertation charts a changing narrative of "Europeanness" from hopes for a federation after the racial genocide of World War II through critiques of nationalism after decolonization, the "failure" of multiculturalism since the 1990s, and intensified Roma discrimination, Islamophobia, and right-wing extremism in the twenty-first century. At stake is a broader question of how strangers may relate to one another in an increasingly proximate world. Within the field of contemporary art history, scholars have focused recently on issues of collective spectatorship and participation, or how multiple viewers around an artwork may connect with one another and not just an object. Since the 1990's, there has emerged a robust line of inquiry directed at socially-oriented art practices, variously studied as "community" art, "relational" art, "dialogical" art, and so on. While this scholarship has opened up a rich discourse about different aspects of socially-engaged practices, there has not been a study of artists who focus on the specific dilemmas of constructing a present-day "European community." The European Union itself, for example, which touts a slogan of being "United in Diversity," is an exemplary model to rethink questions of cross-cultural exchange and hopes for inter-relating a mass body of strangers. This dissertation investigates contemporary artists in Europe who are staking aesthetic questions of collective engagement in vivid socio- and geopolitical terms.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Art history
European Studies
Film studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences
Subject Term
Communication and the arts
Subject Term
Collectivity
Subject Term
Xenophobia
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New Europe
Subject Term
Postcolonial
Subject Term
Public sphere
Subject Term
Collectivism
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Germany
Subject Term
Switzerland
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Cohen, Brianne
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Smith, Terry, supervisor
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