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Bibliography in development. Survey the current picture

Updated: Dec 22, 2023

The topics chosen are quite broad, so I guess I'll have to pare down my research and focus on one thing at a time.

At the moment, my list of literature and research materials looks like this:



Books:


· Stanley, Jason - How propaganda works-Princeton University Press 2015

My comment: Propaganda and its methods for changing/creating human reality

· Littell, Jonathan The Kindly Ones, Harper Collins, Year: 2014

My comment: How one can not notice and become a murderer or be involved in murders?

· Barrett, Terry Why Is That Art? Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art. Third Edition. Oxford University Press (2017)

My comment: Definitions of aesthetics and the meaning of art

· THE APPREHENSION OF BEAUTY, 2008, The Role of Aesthetic Conflict in Development, Art, and Violence, Donald Meltzer and Meg Harris Williams, Published for The Harris Meltzer Trust by KARNAC

My comment: The connection between aesthetics and education and its influence on personality and aggression

· War And Art, Joanna Bourke

My comment: history of conflict representation

· Mark Rothko 2015 FROM THE INSIDE OUT, Christopher Rothko, Yale University Press, New Haven and London

My comment: His understanding of Catharsis

· Bourriaud Nicolas - Relational Aesthetics (1998) –

My comment: how responsibility is removed from the individual?

· Viktor E. Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning-Pocket Books (1988)

My comment: The meaning of life, who values it

· Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky - Notes from Underground (Everyman's Library)-Everyman's Library (2004).

My comment: An example of the ins and outs of a person's soul

· Thomas J. Scheff - Bloody Revenge_ Emotions, Nationalism, And War-Routledge (2019); catharsis in healing ritual and drama by Thomas j. Scheff https://books.google.de/books?id=VvFm0BRbqEYC&lpg=PR9&ots=vguiSIhpdX&dq=contemporary%20catharsis&lr&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q=contemporary%20catharsis&f=false

My comment: Understanding catharsis, in art, in psychology

· Leon Festinger - A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance-Stanford University Press (2022)

My comment: People can support war because of the inconsistency of their life model

· After Rwanda : In Search of a New Ethics, Jean-Paul Martinon (2013) Studies in Intercultural Philosophy, BRILL

My comment: “… I put forward the Introduction premise of an ethics whereby death, this phenomenon that veers out of the living present, invisibly structures human moral encounters.” (Martinon, 202 p. xi)

My comment: They point out the need for citizens to support the actions of politicians in war and this is done through all available media.

· Post-media Aesthetics, Lev Manovich 2001Тhe MIT Press

My comment: (I define screen as a rectangular surface that frames a virtual world and that exists within the physical world of a viewer without completely blocking her visual field. Manovich, 2001 p. 16)




Articles:


· Artie Vierkant, The Image Object Post-Internet 2010 [online] At: https://jstchillin.org/artie/pdf/The_Image_Object_Post-Internet_us.pdf (Accessed 20.12.2023)

· Тhe Guardian, Ways of Seeing at 50: how John Berger’s radical TV series changed our view of art, Olivia Laing Mon 17 Jan 2022 [online] At: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/17/ways-of-seeing-at-50-how-john-bergers-radical-tv-series-changed-our-view-of-art (Accessed 20.12.2023)

· Post-media Aesthetics, Lev Manovich 2001 [online] At: http://manovich.net/content/04-projects/032-post-media-aesthetics/29_article_2001.pdf (Accessed 22.12.2023)





Artist:



· Phyllida Barlow

My comment:Destruction

· Kurt Schwitters

My comment:“Kurt Schwitters was an early 20th-century Dada artist whose elegant collages were made in the wake of the First World War as hopeful portraits of how destruction can feed creation: how bits of advertising, scraps of newspaper, wood, garbage, and urban debris could all be collaged together into something new and beautiful. Schwitters believed that art was holistic, that philosophy, and lifestyle, which he called merz—a nonsense word that became his kind of personal brand - were synthesized in his art practice.” OCA documents


· Camille Henrot “The Pale Fox” …

My comment:Working with a new aesthetic


· Anselm Kiefer

My comment: For its materiality, darkness and attitude towards war


· Louise Nevelson

My comment: Collection and processing, rethinking the old


· Franz West

My comment: Unconventional materials, viewer interaction with sculpture


· Leonardo Drew

My comment: Emotions, destruction, conflict


· Mark Rothko

My comment: Catharsis through colour


· Richard Serra

My comment: Arc work is like uncomfortable work, conflict is a physical feeling of discomfort


· VERSIONS, OLIVER LARIC 2010 https://anthology.rhizome.org/versions

My comment: Artistic Research Method





Relevant exhibitions, practitioners, design groups, artist collaborations, performances, installations…:



Directors:

· Andrei Tarkovsky

My comment: Catharsis, melancholy, rebirth



Websites:


· The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II By Thessaly La Force, Zoë Lescaze, Nancy Hass and M.H. Miller Oct. 15, 2020 The New York Times Magazine [online] At: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/t-magazine/most-influential-protest-art.html (Accessed 29.08.2023)

· Catharsis in Psychology and Beyond: A Historic Overview, by Esta Powell, M.A., M.S. [online] At: http://primal-page.com/cathar.htm (Accessed 27.11.2023)




Other:


· Broken Windows Theory [online] At: https://www.britannica.com/topic/broken-windows-theory (Accessed 17.11.2023)

· Robert Sapolsky

· Plato Cave

· 6 and 9 perspective

· The Rashomon Effect

· Kitch Greenberg

· Postmodernist theory [online] At: https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy (Accessed 21.11.2023)

· Humanism/Posthumanism [online] At: https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/definition-of-humanism/ (Accessed 22.11.2023); [online] At: https://oxfordre.com/communication/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228613-e-627 (Accessed 21.11.2023)

· Conflict theory?

· The Theory of the Third

· Joseph Goebbels: Meister der Propaganda – Hitlers Helfer | BILD Doku https://youtu.be/asIXPYGMKIM?si=qg1o1H3kieylcYIG

· Rosalind Krauss, Reinventing the Medium from Critical Inquiry Volume 25, No. 2 (1999)

· Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (1985)

· Artie Vierkant (Artist) talks to Luca Lo Pinto about how the documentation of an exhibition can be more real than the original. https://youtu.be/lOGLfp74Qjg?si=KH703sqkZR-yVchY

· Елена Здорова, лекция «Почему современное искусство такое ужасное?» | ARTWEEK 2023 https://youtu.be/Hzimk8MG4E8?si=luQBEHBPka-sgAfW



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