The Culture of Violence |
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Artist:
| Green, Gregory B, Beth Chin, Mel Coe, Sue Cohen, Elizabeth |
ISBN: | 978-0-929597-15-7 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
Publisher: | University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University Gallery
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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The Culture of Violencepresents a broad interdisciplinary approach to the subject of violence as it arises in the media, the lives of children and their families, and in the work of artists such as Bruce Nauman, Ida Applebroog, Mel Chin, Kristin Oppenheim, Lucinda Devlin, Gregory Green, Leon Golub, Richard Misrach and Sue Williams. Organized around thematic categories that traverse class and gender, and that range from political to personal expressions of violence, including...
More Description The Culture of Violencepresents a broad interdisciplinary approach to the subject of violence as it arises in the media, the lives of children and their families, and in the work of artists such as Bruce Nauman, Ida Applebroog, Mel Chin, Kristin Oppenheim, Lucinda Devlin, Gregory Green, Leon Golub, Richard Misrach and Sue Williams. Organized around thematic categories that traverse class and gender, and that range from political to personal expressions of violence, including terrorism and hate crimes, government-sanctioned execution, youth and gang violence, street crime and domestic violence, The Culture of Violenceincludes a conversation on violence and culture in medieval epics and contemporary media, and a proscriptive essay on coping with family violence.