Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Title

Difficult Conversations

Publisher

British Council Northern Ireland in collaboration with the British Council Research & Insight team

School

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)

RAS ID

57958

Comments

McKenzie, V., & Webb, J. (2023). Re-enactment as conversation: Yoshiko Shimada’s becoming a statue of a Japanese comfort woman. In U. K. Frederick, A. Harrison, T. Ireland & J. Magee (Eds.), Difficult Conversations. British Council Northern Ireland in collaboration with the British Council Research & Insight team. https://doi.org/10.57884/SHTK-J226

Abstract

‘Since Plotinus’, writes Joseph Tanke (2019, p. 486), ‘Western art has been consecrated to beauty, and beautiful art has been understood as the achievement of good form’. But alongside this interest in beauty and form, art has been committed to politics and perspectives, equity and rights. Consequently, and particularly since the start of the modern era, artists frequently initiate or participate in ‘difficult conversations’. . . .

DOI

10.57884/SHTK-J226

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