Guerrilla aesthetics : art, memory, and the West German urban guerrilla /
Kimberly Mair.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Negative Subjects -- Aesthetic Convolutions -- Choreography of the Unspeakable and the Urban Guerrilla Posture -- From Consensus to Dissensus -- Gerhard Richter's Painterly Utterance -- Coda Regarding an Accusation of Love: The RAF Exhibition -- Unruly Memory and the Spectre of Monument. Machine generated contents note: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"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 sc�ene 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."--
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Terrorism--History--Germany (West)--20th century. Guerrillas--History--Germany (West)--20th century. Aesthetics--Political aspects--History--Germany (West)--20th century. Aesthetics--Social aspects--History--Germany (West)--20th century. Art--Political aspects--History--Germany (West)--20th century. Art and society--History--Germany (West)--20th century. Collective memory--History--Germany (West)--20th century. Terrorisme--Histoire--Allemagne (Ouest)--20e si�ecle. Gu�erillas--Histoire--Allemagne (Ouest)--20e si�ecle. Esth�etique--Aspect politique--Histoire--Allemagne (Ouest)--20e si�ecle. Esth�etique--Aspect social--Histoire--Allemagne (Ouest)--20e si�ecle. Art--Aspect politique--Histoire--Allemagne (Ouest)--20e si�ecle. Art et soci�et�e--Histoire--Allemagne (Ouest)--20e si�ecle. M�emoire collective--Histoire--Allemagne (Ouest)--20e si�ecle. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE--General. Aesthetics--Political aspects. Aesthetics--Social aspects. Art and society. Art--Political aspects. Collective memory. Guerrillas. Terrorism.