Open AccessArt, War and Counter-Images
Author(s) -
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the nordic journal of aesthetics/the nordic journal of aesthetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.145
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2000-9607
pISSN - 2000-1452
DOI - 10.7146/nja.v23i44-45.8183
Subject(s) - exhibition , hegemony , context (archaeology) , representation (politics) , politics , state (computer science) , liberalism , art , spanish civil war , visual arts , art history , aesthetics , political science , history , law , archaeology , computer science , algorithm
The article analyses the relatively meager response of artists to the ‘war on terror’ compared to the response of American artists to the war in Vietnam, where artists organized both exhibitions and protests against the war in South East Asia in the late 1960s. This of course has to do with the transformations going in contemporary art and the broader political context characterized by the hegemony of neo-liberalism. The article juxtaposes an installation by the Retort collective with an installation by Alfredo Jaar, analyzing two different ways of confronting the image war of the capitalist state machine with either a heave-handed use of art or a negative representation.