Throughout history persons with power seem to have been convinced that they could influence the people most effectively with visual art and therefore they invested a lot of resources into the visual presentation of power. It is usually argued that the people with their “simple minds” need visual art to understand a complex world. However, it might be more to the truth that not the people but the rulers themselves are the most addicted persons to the messages transported by visual arts.
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Dienstag, 14. Juni 2016
Untertitel
Lecture by Christine Landfried
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Dienstag, 14. Juni 2016
Beginn: 12:00 Uhr
Ansprechpartner Name
Miriam Godefroid
buero.praesidentin [at] wzb.eu
More than ever before, questions of movement, displacement and belonging, equality and inequality, borders and otherness have become hot-button issues worldwide. Public law--whether domestic, European or international--structures practices of inclusion and exclusion, borders and boundaries, and line-drawing in a variety of ways.