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Author Mair, Kimberly, 1970- author

Title Guerrilla aesthetics : art, memory, and the West German urban guerrilla / Kimberly Mair
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016

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Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Negative Subjects -- 2. Aesthetic Convolutions -- 3. Choreography of the Unspeakable and the Urban Guerrilla Posture -- 4. From Consensus to Dissensus -- Gerhard Richter's Painterly Utterance -- 5. Coda Regarding an Accusation of Love: The RAF Exhibition -- 6. Unruly Memory and the Spectre of Monument
Summary "Guerrilla Aesthetics confronts the legacy of the urban guerrilla movement active in West Germany since the 1970s. It draws from archival source materials, giving particular attention to West Germany's Red Decade of 1967 to 1977. The decade was characterized by not only the 'terrorist' actions and police brutality, but also countercultural aesthetics that favoured self-displacement over instrumental goals. As the author, Kimberly Mair, writes, "the guerrillas were known for violent operations, which had a spectacular, even staged characteristic; as if it was more important that the event produce its own phantasmagorical mise en scène than be successful in any standard instrumental sense." To again quote Mair, "the core argument of the manuscript is that West German urban guerrillas grew out of an aesthetic ethos that encouraged individuals to break free from modern liberal subjectivity and instrumental rationality, and led to the public illegibility of their actions." From hunger strikes to textual work, Mair's work looks at the movement's reverberations through artistic and memorial practices."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Terrorism -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century
Guerrillas -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century
Aesthetics -- Political aspects -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century
Aesthetics -- Social aspects -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century
Art -- Political aspects -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century
Art and society -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Aesthetics -- Political aspects
Aesthetics -- Social aspects
Art and society
Art -- Political aspects
Collective memory
Guerrillas
Terrorism
Germany (West)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773598744
077359874X
9780773598751
0773598758