Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance

Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance
ISBN-10
1000399648
ISBN-13
9781000399646
Category
Art
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2021-06-14
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Gwenn-Aël Lynn, Debra Riley Parr

Description

This book claims a political value for olfactory artworks by situating them squarely in the contemporary moment of various forms of political resistance. Each chapter presents the current research and art practices of an international group of artists and writers from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, Thailand, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The book brings together new thinking on the potential for olfactory art to critique and produce modes of engagement that challenge the still-powerful hegemonic realities of the twenty-first century, particularly the dominance of vision as opposed to other sensory modalities. The book will be of interest to scholars working in contemporary art, art history, visual culture, olfactory studies, performance studies, and politics of activism.

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