Tactical Response
Subtitle: art in an age of terror
By: Kathleen MacQueen
Contributors: Collazo Llorens, Nayda, 1968- book designer
Publisher: Agon Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780692242568
Subjects: Politics in art; Suffering in art; Street art; Terrorism in art; Modern Art; Themes, motives
Other titles: Strategic tactical response; Art in an age of terror
Description: "This project takes as its point of departure the crisis of perception that photojournalism fails to adequately take into account the problems of representing atrocity without exacerbating the violence or dehumanizing the subject. ... By selecting three artists: Hans Haacke, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Alfredo Jaar who have struggled for decades to resolve the disparity between documentation and the production of aesthetics meaning, I propose to offer a vantage point from which we as viewers can critically address the representation of suffering and the ethics of bearing witness."--Page 3.
Notes: On cover: Haacke, Wodiczko, Jaar.

"Tactical Response: Art in an Age of Terror" was launched at LMAK Projects in the Lower East Side of New York City on November 20, 2014, while an exhibition of works by artist (and ... book designer) Nayda Collazo-Llorens was on display in the gallery ..."--Press release.

The text is based on the author's doctorate dissertation from 2012, Stony Brook University.

"Selected bibliography" (pages 259-277).