Modern Monsters /anglais: Death and Life of Fiction - Softcover

Kuan, Wood Brian

 
9783944669564: Modern Monsters /anglais: Death and Life of Fiction

Inhaltsangabe

Departing from the figure of the Taowu, a Chinese mythological monster of evil inclination used recently by historians and writers to symbolize the violent fate of Chinese utopian modernity, this publication interrogates the role of systemic and structural violence in the making of modernity and its artistic representations, and uses the monster as a vantage point to capture global dimensions of the current crisis of social imaginaries.

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Reseña del editor

Departing from the figure of the Taowu, a Chinese mythological monster of evil inclination used recently by historians and writers to symbolize the violent fate of Chinese utopian modernity, this publication interrogates the role of systemic and structural violence in the making of modernity and its artistic representations, and uses the monster as a vantage point to capture global dimensions of the current crisis of social imaginaries.

Biografía del autor

Anselm Franke is head of visual art and film at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and former artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp.

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