{"product_id":"the-national-frame-art-and-state-violence-in-turkey-and-germany-paperback","title":"The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBanu Karaca\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on long-term ethnographic research in the art worlds of Istanbul and Berlin, \u003ci\u003eThe National Frame\u003c\/i\u003e rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship, collecting and curating art, and the modalities of censorship continue to be refracted through the conceptual lens of the nation-state, despite the globalization of the arts. By examining discussions of the civilizing function of art in Turkey and Germany and particularly moments in which art is seen to cede this function, \u003ci\u003eThe National Frame\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the histories of violence on which the production, circulation, and, very understanding of art are predicated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKaraca examines this darker side of art in two cities in which art and its institutions have been intertwined with symbolic and material dispossession. The particularities of German and Turkish contexts, both marked by attempts to claim modern nationhood through the arts; illuminate how art is staked to memory and erasure, resistance and restoration; and why art has been at once vital and unwieldy for national projects. As art continues to be called upon to engage the past and imagine different futures, \u003ci\u003eThe National Frame\u003c\/i\u003e explores how to reclaim art's emancipatory potential.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you believe that art is inherently progressive, emancipatory and universal, you must read this important case study of the nationalist and decivilizing capacities of art, and its official uses and misuses, in Germany and Turkey. Exploring how national frames delimit the production, circulation, collection, and display of visual art works, Banu Karaca unsettles pervasive assumptions through immanent critique, while also offering a new understanding of the political role of art in our contemporary world.\"--\u003cb\u003eMarianne Hirsch\u003c\/b\u003e, co-author of \u003ci\u003eSchool Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With impeccable and eye-opening scholarship, Banu Karaca forces the history of art to confront the history of genocide. \u003ci\u003eThe National Frame\u003c\/i\u003e presents a masterful interrogation of the geopolitics of modernity.\"--\u003cb\u003eKabir Tambar\u003c\/b\u003e, Stanford University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on long-term ethnographic research in the art worlds of Istanbul and Berlin, \u003ci\u003eThe National Frame\u003c\/i\u003e rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship, collecting and curating art, and the modalities of censorship, continue to be refracted through the conceptual lens of the nation-state, despite the globalization of the arts. By examining discussions of the civilizing function of art in Turkey and Germany, \u003ci\u003eThe National Frame\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the histories of violence on which the production, circulation, and, very understanding of art are predicated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKaraca examines this darker side of art in two cities in which art and its institutions have been intertwined with symbolic and material dispossession. The particularities of German and Turkish contexts illuminate how art is staked to memory and erasure, resistance and restoration, and why art has been at once vital and unwieldy for national projects. As art continues to be called upon to engage the past and imagine different futures, \u003ci\u003eThe National Frame\u003c\/i\u003e explores how to reclaim art's emancipatory potential. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBanu Karaca\u003c\/b\u003e is a EUME Fellow of the VolkswagenStiftung at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBanu Karaca\u003c\/b\u003e is a fellow at the Foundation for Arts Initiatives in New York and an Assistant Professor and EUME Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457843642621,"sku":"9780823290215","price":80.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/RFVGVjNDMEhEQzFWTnMvTThWa0ordz09.webp?v=1777248517","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-national-frame-art-and-state-violence-in-turkey-and-germany-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}