New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics

In the late twentieth century, political and cultural activism increasingly tackled identity-based forms of structural inequality. During the cultural debates of the 1980s and early ’90s, identity politics became a major arena for critical and intellectual inquiry and was increasingly the focus of c...

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description In the late twentieth century, political and cultural activism increasingly tackled identity-based forms of structural inequality. During the cultural debates of the 1980s and early ’90s, identity politics became a major arena for critical and intellectual inquiry and was increasingly the focus of creative endeavor. In the decades that followed, new discourses considered the construction and maintenance of rigidly defined identities—pondering whether the markers of belongingness (related to gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, and nationhood) have become too fixed and exclusionary. The increasingly prevalent notion that identity discourses (often concerned with histories of coloniality, genocide, racism, nationalism, and gender and sexuality-based antagonisms) have become siloed, tribal, and engaged in so-called ‘purity politics’ has led to divisive but generative conversations. Within this larger conversation, contemporary art and visual culture have emerged as crucial sites for interrogating the ideological construction of identity and difference in representation. This methodologically diverse collection brings together a range of voices that ponder the complexities of belongingness as envisioned in contemporary art and visual culture. This lively interdisciplinary discussion explores how the visual can foster intersectionality as a self-critical praxis while destabilizing fixed notions of identity.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1705762026-01-02T16:12:24Z New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics Murray, Derek Conrad Schwartz, Stacy Eva Hesse identity formation process-oriented practice emergence Yad Vashem embodied spaces postmemory collective memory Bill Wurtzel Borscht Belt Lou Dorfsman identity palimpsest singular collective artwork Anthony Russell Josephine Baker The Quiet One race Jewishness Blackness representation video games videogames belonging anti-essentialism game studies artist art world art market European Enlightenment art history neoliberalism capitalism hybridity trans transgender photography masculinity LGBTQ critical race studies disidentification feminist art history Jewish feminist art Jewish art and feminism ecocritical art art and climate change environmental humanities and art gender and memory in art memory politics and post-Holocaust art climate crisis art trauma studies in art post-Holocaust studies and art n/a trans joy pedagogy worlding curating decolonization auto-theory opacity worldmaking archipelago belongingness African-American art abstraction contemporary art Jewish art queer theory performance In the late twentieth century, political and cultural activism increasingly tackled identity-based forms of structural inequality. During the cultural debates of the 1980s and early ’90s, identity politics became a major arena for critical and intellectual inquiry and was increasingly the focus of creative endeavor. In the decades that followed, new discourses considered the construction and maintenance of rigidly defined identities—pondering whether the markers of belongingness (related to gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, and nationhood) have become too fixed and exclusionary. The increasingly prevalent notion that identity discourses (often concerned with histories of coloniality, genocide, racism, nationalism, and gender and sexuality-based antagonisms) have become siloed, tribal, and engaged in so-called ‘purity politics’ has led to divisive but generative conversations. Within this larger conversation, contemporary art and visual culture have emerged as crucial sites for interrogating the ideological construction of identity and difference in representation. This methodologically diverse collection brings together a range of voices that ponder the complexities of belongingness as envisioned in contemporary art and visual culture. This lively interdisciplinary discussion explores how the visual can foster intersectionality as a self-critical praxis while destabilizing fixed notions of identity. 2026-01-02T16:12:21Z 2026-01-02T16:12:21Z 2025 book 978-3-7258-4552-1 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170576 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/11300 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-4551-4 10.3390/books978-3-7258-4551-4 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 978-3-7258-4552-1 204 CH open access
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identity formation
process-oriented practice
emergence
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embodied spaces
postmemory
collective memory
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Borscht Belt
Lou Dorfsman
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singular
collective
artwork
Anthony Russell
Josephine Baker
The Quiet One
race
Jewishness
Blackness
representation
video games
videogames
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anti-essentialism
game studies
artist
art world
art market
European Enlightenment
art history
neoliberalism
capitalism
hybridity
trans
transgender
photography
masculinity
LGBTQ
critical race studies
disidentification
feminist art history
Jewish feminist art
Jewish art and feminism
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art and climate change
environmental humanities and art
gender and memory in art
memory politics and post-Holocaust art
climate crisis art
trauma studies in art
post-Holocaust studies and art
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trans joy
pedagogy
worlding
curating
decolonization
auto-theory
opacity
worldmaking
archipelago
belongingness
African-American art
abstraction
contemporary art
Jewish art
queer theory
performance
Murray, Derek Conrad
Schwartz, Stacy
New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics
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topic Eva Hesse
identity formation
process-oriented practice
emergence
Yad Vashem
embodied spaces
postmemory
collective memory
Bill Wurtzel
Borscht Belt
Lou Dorfsman
identity
palimpsest
singular
collective
artwork
Anthony Russell
Josephine Baker
The Quiet One
race
Jewishness
Blackness
representation
video games
videogames
belonging
anti-essentialism
game studies
artist
art world
art market
European Enlightenment
art history
neoliberalism
capitalism
hybridity
trans
transgender
photography
masculinity
LGBTQ
critical race studies
disidentification
feminist art history
Jewish feminist art
Jewish art and feminism
ecocritical art
art and climate change
environmental humanities and art
gender and memory in art
memory politics and post-Holocaust art
climate crisis art
trauma studies in art
post-Holocaust studies and art
n/a
trans joy
pedagogy
worlding
curating
decolonization
auto-theory
opacity
worldmaking
archipelago
belongingness
African-American art
abstraction
contemporary art
Jewish art
queer theory
performance
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identity formation
process-oriented practice
emergence
Yad Vashem
embodied spaces
postmemory
collective memory
Bill Wurtzel
Borscht Belt
Lou Dorfsman
identity
palimpsest
singular
collective
artwork
Anthony Russell
Josephine Baker
The Quiet One
race
Jewishness
Blackness
representation
video games
videogames
belonging
anti-essentialism
game studies
artist
art world
art market
European Enlightenment
art history
neoliberalism
capitalism
hybridity
trans
transgender
photography
masculinity
LGBTQ
critical race studies
disidentification
feminist art history
Jewish feminist art
Jewish art and feminism
ecocritical art
art and climate change
environmental humanities and art
gender and memory in art
memory politics and post-Holocaust art
climate crisis art
trauma studies in art
post-Holocaust studies and art
n/a
trans joy
pedagogy
worlding
curating
decolonization
auto-theory
opacity
worldmaking
archipelago
belongingness
African-American art
abstraction
contemporary art
Jewish art
queer theory
performance
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