Explores contemporary art that challenges deadly desires for mastery and dominion.\nAmid times of emboldened cruelty and perpetual war, Rosalyn Deutsche links contemporary art to three practices that counter the prevailing destructiveness: psychoanalytic feminism, radical democracy, and war resistance. Deutsche considers how art joins these radical practices to challenge desires for mastery and dominion, which are encapsulated in the Eurocentric conception of the human that goes under the name “Man” and is driven by deadly inclinations that Deutsche calls masculinist. The masculinist subject—as an individual or a group—universalizes itself, claims to speak on behalf of humanity, and meets differences with conquest.\nAnalyzing artworks by Christopher D’Arcangelo, Robert Filliou, Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Silvia Kolbowski, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Martha Rosler, James Welling, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, Deutsche illuminates the diverse ways in which they expose, question, and trouble the visual fantasies that express masculinist desire. Undermining the mastering subject, these artworks invite viewers to question the positions they assume in relation to others. Together, the essays in Not-Forgetting, written between 1999 and 2020, argue that this art offers a unique contribution to building a less cruel and violent society.

Not-Forgetting: Contemporary Art and the Interrogation of Mastery

Arts & Photography

Deutsche, Rosalyn

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

Many on the left lament an apathy or amnesia toward recent acts of war. Particularly during the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, opposition to war seemed to lack the heat and potency of the 1960s and 1970s, giving the impression that passionate dissent was all but dead. Through an analysis of three politically engaged works of art, Rosalyn Deutsche argues against this melancholic attitude, confirming the power of contemporary art to criticize subjectivity as well as war. Deutsche selects three videos centered on the deployment of the atomic bomb: Krzysztof Wodiczko's Hiroshima Projection (1999), made after the first Gulf War; Silvia Kolbowski's After Hiroshima mon amour (2005-2008); and Leslie Thornton's Let Me Count the Ways (2004-2008), which followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Each of these works confronts the ethical task of addressing historical disaster, and each explores the intersection of past and present wars. These artworks profoundly contribute to the discourse of war resistance, illuminating the complex dynamics of viewing and interpretation. Deutsche employs feminist and psychoanalytic approaches in her study, questioning both the role of totalizing images in the production of warlike subjects and the fantasies that perpetuate, especially among the left, traditional notions of political dissent. She ultimately reveals the passive collusion between leftist critique and dominant discourse in which personal dimensions of war are denied.

Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Columbia University Press

Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War

Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art, architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on the other. In Evictions Rosalyn Deutsche investigates—and protests against—the dominant uses of this interdisciplinary discourse. Deutsche argues that critics on both the left and the right invoke harmonious images of space that conceal and justify exclusions—whether the space in question is a city, park, institution, exhibition, identity, or work of art. By contrast, she calls for a democratic spatial critique that takes account of the conflicts that produce and maintain all spaces, including the space of politics itself. Evictions examines how aesthetic and urban ideologies were combined during the last decade to legitimize urban redevelopment programs that claimed to be beneficial to all, yet in reality tried to expunge traditional working classes from the city. Combining critical aesthetic theory about the social production of art with critical urban theory about the social production of space, Deutsche exposes this unspoken agenda. She then responds to a new alliance of prominent urban and cultural scholars who use critical spatial theory to protect traditional left political projects against the challenges posed by new radical cultural practices. In her critique, Deutsche mobilizes feminist and postmodern ideas about the politics of visual representation and subjectivity. She also intervenes in debates taking place in art, architecture, and urban studies about the meaning of public space, and places these struggles within broader contests over the definition of democracy. Opposing the nostalgic belief that democracy's survival demands the recovery of a once unified public sphere, Deutsche contends that conflict, far from undermining public space, is a prerequisite for its existence and growth. CONTENTS: Introduction. I. The Social Production of Space. Krzysztof Wodiczko's Homeless Projection and the Site of Urban "Revitalization." Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City. Representing Berlin: Urban Ideology and Aesthetic Practice. Property Values: Hans Haacke, Real Estate, and the Museum. II. Men in Space. Men in Space. Boys Town. Chinatown, Part Four? What Jake Forgets about Downtown. III. Public Space and Democracy. Tilted Arc and the Uses of Democracy. Agoraphobia.

Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (The Graham Foundation / MIT

Architecture

Mit Pr

Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art, architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on the other. In Evictions Rosalyn Deutsche investigates―and protests against―the dominant uses of this interdisciplinary discourse. Deutsche argues that critics on both the left and the right invoke harmonious images of space that conceal and justify exclusions―whether the space in question is a city, park, institution, exhibition, identity, or work of art. By contrast, she calls for a democratic spatial critique that takes account of the conflicts that produce and maintain all spaces, including the space of politics itself. Evictions examines how aesthetic and urban ideologies were combined during the last decade to legitimize urban redevelopment programs that claimed to be beneficial to all, yet in reality tried to expunge traditional working classes from the city. Combining critical aesthetic theory about the social production of art with critical urban theory about the social production of space, Deutsche exposes this unspoken agenda. She then responds to a new alliance of prominent urban and cultural scholars who use critical spatial theory to protect traditional left political projects against the challenges posed by new radical cultural practices. In her critique, Deutsche mobilizes feminist and postmodern ideas about the politics of visual representation and subjectivity. She also intervenes in debates taking place in art, architecture, and urban studies about the meaning of public space, and places these struggles within broader contests over the definition of democracy. Opposing the nostalgic belief that democracy's survival demands the recovery of a once unified public sphere, Deutsche contends that conflict, far from undermining public space, is a prerequisite for its existence and growth.
Contents Introduction • I. The Social Production of Space • Krzysztof Wodiczko's Homeless Projection and the Site of Urban "Revitalization." • Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City • Representing Berlin • Property Values: Hans Haacke, Real Estate, and the Museum • II. Men in Space • Men in Space • Boys Town • Chinatown, Part Four? What Jake Forgets about Downtown • III. Public Space and Democracy • Tilted Arc and the Uses of Democracy • Agoraphobia

Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse)

The MIT Press

Barbara Kruger

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Kruger, Barbara

Whitney Museum of American Art

Goldstein, Ann

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Museum of Contemporary Art

In reading all the theoretical contributions to this book, an essentially common idea of the social can be observed which is of fundamental importance for a new definition of artistic production: a process-related order of institutionalized actions, including the linguistic actions to which individuals are exposed. For here, in the repetition of such institutionalized acts, is where subjects first emerge at all. Objects, whether they be objects of everyday use or whole architectures, are like moulds which provide for the institutionalization of actions. The artist emerges as a social figure, as the product of a society and the agent of political interests. From this point of view, the status of objects, the status of the work” is not the expression of a circumscribed meaning, but the instrument of forming a subject. The opposition of theory and practice becomes obsolete. Subject and object are meaning written into actions.

The Artist as Public Intellectual (Publications of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)

Mouffe, Chantal

Hirschhorn, Thomas

Schlebrugge Editor

Documented here is Silvia Kolbowski's work from the 1980s through to today. At the center are the works, An Inadequate History of Conceptual Art, Like Looking Away, and her newest work, Proximity to Power: American Style. Accompanying these works are illustrations, text-excerpts and project-statements by the artist.

Silvia Kolbowski: Inadequate…Like...Power

Nixon, Mignon

FOSTER, HAL

Schmidt-Wulffen, Stephan

Individual Artists

Walther König, Köln

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