Terror and the Arts: Artistic, Literary, and Political Interpretations of Violence from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib

255 Pages·2008·4.5 MB·English

by  Matti Hyvärinen PhD (political science)

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Terror and the Arts
Previous Edited Volumes by Matti Hyvärinen
Hyvärinen, Matti, Anu Korhonen, and Juri Mykkänen, eds. 2006. The trav-
elling concept of narrative. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
(COLLeGIUM) http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/e-series/volumes/volume
_1/index.htm.
Carver, Terrell, and Matti Hyvärinen, eds. 1997. Interpreting the political:
New methodologies. London and New York: Routledge.
Terror and the Arts
Artistic, Literary, and Political Interpretations of
Violence from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib
Edited by Matti Hyvärinen and Lisa Muszynski
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Hyvärinen, Matti and Muszynski, Lisa
Terror and the arts : artistic, literary, and political interpretations of violence
from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib / edited and with an introduction by Matti
Hyvärinen and Lisa Muszynski.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Terror in art. 2. Arts, Modern. I. Hyvärinen, Matti. II. Muszynski, Lisa.
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
Introduction: The Arts Investigating Terror 1
Matti Hyvärinen and Lisa Muszynski
Part 1: Visualizing Terror
1 The Implicated Spectator: From Manet to Botero 25
Frank Möller
2 Art in the Age of Terror: The Israeli Case 41
Dana Arieli-Horowitz
3 The Aura of Terror? 61
Kia Lindroos
Part 2: Fictionalizing Terror
4 Dostoyevsky on Terror and the Question of the West 83
Margaret Heller
5 To This Side of Good and Evil: Primo Levi as a Truth-teller 97
Tuija Parvikko
6 Narrating the Trauma: Georges Perec’s W ou le souvenir d’enfance 113
Kuisma Korhonen
7 Too Much Terror? J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello 129
and the Circulation of Trauma
Matti Hyvärinen
vi ● Contents
Part 3: Governmental Terror
8 Dictators and Dictatorships:
Art and Politics in Romania and Chile (1974–89) 147
Caterina Preda
9 Inciting Mental Terror as Effective Governmental Control:
Chinese Propaganda Posters during the Cultural Revolution
(1966–76) 165
Minna Valjakka
10 TheSweet Hereafterof Machiavelli and Weber: Discussing
Community and Responsibility as Political-ethical Criteria 185
Javier Franzé
Part 4: The Terror of Theory
11 The Violence of Lying 207
Olivia Guaraldo
12 Terrorized by Sound?
Foucault on Terror, Resistance, and Sonorous Art 225
Lauri Siisiäinen
Index 243
Figures and Tables
Figure 2.1 Miki Kratsman, “Om el Phaem,” 2002. 45
Figure 2.2 David Reeb, Where are the Soldiers?2003. 45
Figure 2.3 Gal Weinstein, Uday, 2004. 47
Figure 2.4 Gal Weinstein, Qusay, 2004. 47
Figure 2.5 David Wackstein, Swastika, 2001. 51
Figure 2.6 Dganit Berest, The Wall, 2004 (detail). 53
Figure 2.7 David Tartakover, I’m Here, Tel Aviv, 19 October 1994,
2003–2004. (Based on a photograph by Ziv Koren.) 54
Figure 3.1 Guy Raz, “Two Seconds,” 2004–2006. 76
Table 8.1 Comparative view of the two regimes 150
Table 8.2 Comparative view of artistic manifestations 155
Preface and Acknowledgments
The idea for this book grew out of a small symposium, “Arts and Terror,” held
at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in May 2006. The arrangement of the
symposium became possible thanks to the Academy of Finland, and its new
Centre for Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change. The cen-
tre has three research teams; one of them is Politics and the Arts, the organizer
of the symposium. We thank all of the participants of the symposium for the
enduring discussions and enthusiasm that helped to launch the work for this
volume. Moreover, the existence of the international Politics and the Arts
group, now a standing group of the European Consortium for Political
Research (ECPR), helped greatly in getting in touch with the people inter-
ested in the hybrid area of terror and the arts.
As in every work of this nature, the editing process is one that owes many
thanks to those individuals who enable it. We are particularly grateful to the
research team coordinator Anitta Kananen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland),
not only for practical arrangements of the event, but also for all kinds of help
during the editorial process. Moreover, Professor Michael Shapiro (University
of Hawaii, United States) was of great help at a decisive moment in the pub-
lication process. Another key person is Peggy Heller (University of King’s
College, Halifax, Canada), who jumped in to help as a coeditor, commenta-
tor, and consultant whenever and wherever this was needed; Kati Thors at the
Copyshop in Espoo has freely given of her time and expertise in all things
technical; Annikki Harris (University of Helsinki Language Services) has
cooperated at the office, providing Lisa Muszynski with the requisite freedom
to work on this project almost continuously, while our families have borne
the brunt of the systematic neglect that such focus entails. Special thanks to
those nearest and dearest who have the patience to endure us to the end:
Tuula H. and Peter, Johann, and Annie M.
Matti Hyvärinen and Lisa Muszynski
Tampere and Helsinki
Contributors
Dana Arieli-Horowitz, PhD, is head of the History and Theory Unit at
Bezalel, Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. She has published exten-
sively on arts under totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century. Among
her publications are: Romanticism of Steel: Art and Politics in Nazi
Germany(Jerusalem: Magness, Hebrew University Press, 1999); Creators
in Overburden: Rabin’s Assassination, Art and Politics (Jerusalem: Magness/
Hebrew University Press, 2005, and winner of the Israeli Prime Minister
Award); and The Totalitarian Ideal: Art and Politics Between the Wars
(forthcoming, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press). She is currently work-
ing on the relationship between art and politics in Israel, and in particular
on art and terror.
Javier Franzé, PhD (political science), a lecturer at the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid. His field of research is the conceptual history of
politics in Western thought, on which he has published ¿Qué es la política?
Tres respuestas: Aristótles, Weber, Schmitt(Madrid, Catarata, 2004), as well
as various other articles. He also researches the relation between violence,
power, and politics, especially focused on its implications for the relation-
ship between ethics and politics.
Olivia Guaraldo, PhD, is lecturer in political philosophy at the University of
Verona. Her main fields of research are political and feminist theory,
where she has worked extensively on the thought of Hannah Arendt and
its relationship with literature and history (Storylines, 2001; Politica e rac-
conto, 2003). She has edited and introduced the Italian translation of
Hannah Arendt, Lying in Politics: Reflections on the Pentagon Papers (It.
2006), as well as Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender(It. 2006) and Precarious
Life(It. 2004). She is currently working on the relationship between vio-
lence and power in modern political thought. She is also a member of the
research team Politics and the Arts at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in
Political Thought and Conceptual Change.