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Politics of Art and Visual Culture Cluster

Description

Based on the assumption that all forms of visual culture emerge from and contribute to the mediation of social and political forces, much of the Politics of Art and Visual Culture Cluster's work explores the role of art, architecture, and other types of visual culture in the assertion, negotiation, and contestation of power.

The cluster does so by pursuing a variety of topics, such as the role of Renaissance visual culture in framing the social problem of infant abandonment, modernity’s entanglement with the visual culture of repressive political regimes, and the production of objects by contemporary activists in pursuit of social change.

Throughout its work, the cluster emphasizes issues of autonomy, agency, dissent, and the contestation of the public realm.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Contact details

University Of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/philosophy-and-art-history/research/the-politics-of-art-and-visual-culture

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  • University-based infrastructure
  • Cluster

Project Tags

  • Architecture tag
  • Art tag
  • History tag

University affiliation(s)

University of Essex
Colchester

Last modified:

2023-09-20 15:00:11

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