Cultural Critique Through the Detour of Art

Author:   Kris Rutten ,  Keyan G. Tomaselli (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   316
Publication Date:   30 June 2025
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Author:   Kris Rutten ,  Keyan G. Tomaselli (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9781032992792


ISBN 10:   1032992794
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   30 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction 1. Revisiting the ethnographic turn in contemporary art 2. The rhetorical turn in contemporary art and ethnography 3. Participation, Art and Digital Culture 4. Woundscapes’: suffering, creativity and bare life – practices and processes of an ethnography-based art exhibition 5. Towards an ethnographic turn in contemporary art scholarship 6. Beyond the Ethnographic Turn: Refiguring the Archive in Selected Works by Zanele Muholi 7. Aesthetics of self-scaling: parallaxed transregionalism and Kutluğ Ataman’s art practice 8. Making sense: affective research in postwar Lebanese art 9. The artist as anthropologist of the current globalisation: a view on the present-day cultural imagination in the artworks of Xu Bing, Takashi Murakami and Shahzia Sikander 10. Organising complexities: the potential of multi-screen video-installations for ethnographic practice and representation 11. A Different Point of View: Women’s Self-representation in Instagram’s Participatory Artistic Movements @girlgazeproject and @arthoecollective 12. YouTube Scenes and the Public Re-seen: Natalie Bookchin and the Digital Public 13. Staging the World: Cross-Cultural (Il)literacy, Taiwan’s Mobile Stage Phenomenon, and Shen Chao-liang’s Stage Series 14. Unlearning Imperialism Through Artistic Remediation: A Critical Pedagogy Approach 15. Archival F(r)ictions: A Queer Vocabulary for a Live art Pedagogy 16. Urban cracks: sites of meaning for critical artistic practices 17. To cite … in time 18. FIG(URATIONS): One Extended Metaphor for the Poetic Method, a Vignette for Convolute H (and an Ode to Walter Benjamin)

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Kris Rutten is Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Studies of Ghent University, Belgium, where he leads the research group Culture & Education. His fields of expertise are the rhetoric of cultural literacy, the rhetorical curriculum and the ethnographic turn in the arts. He is an associate editor of Critical Arts. Keyan G. Tomaselli is founder and co-editor of Critical Arts, and distinguished professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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