Visualising violence : art and remembrance of mass killings in Cold War Southeast Asia

Art and artists have the power to create and challenge narratives. However, an artist’s voice or power may be limited due to the circumstances they are in. This thesis contends that the memories surrounding the events of mass killings in Southeast Asia during the Cold War years can be constructed, r...

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Main Author: Shahira Banu
Other Authors: Zhou Taomo
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1471982023-03-11T20:12:09Z Visualising violence : art and remembrance of mass killings in Cold War Southeast Asia Shahira Banu Zhou Taomo School of Humanities tmzhou@ntu.edu.sg Humanities::History Art and artists have the power to create and challenge narratives. However, an artist’s voice or power may be limited due to the circumstances they are in. This thesis contends that the memories surrounding the events of mass killings in Southeast Asia during the Cold War years can be constructed, reconstructed and questioned through art. The different degrees of artistic autonomy were dependent on the circumstances under which the artists created art in. Looking at three events of mass violence, namely the Vietnam War, the Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge and the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, this work endeavours to highlight artworks that are not connected directly to the Cold War superpowers by taking a comparative, interregional and transnational approach. Using visual analysis along with the histories and memories surrounding the events of mass killings, this paper attempts to place Southeast Asian artworks created with regards to the discussed events in conversation with one another. This thesis seeks to contribute to literature about the Cold War and mass killings in Southeast Asia through the analysis of related artworks. Bachelor of Arts in History 2021-04-01T05:22:28Z 2021-04-01T05:22:28Z 2021 Final Year Project (FYP) Shahira Banu (2021). Visualising violence : art and remembrance of mass killings in Cold War Southeast Asia. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147198 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147198 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
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Shahira Banu
Visualising violence : art and remembrance of mass killings in Cold War Southeast Asia
description Art and artists have the power to create and challenge narratives. However, an artist’s voice or power may be limited due to the circumstances they are in. This thesis contends that the memories surrounding the events of mass killings in Southeast Asia during the Cold War years can be constructed, reconstructed and questioned through art. The different degrees of artistic autonomy were dependent on the circumstances under which the artists created art in. Looking at three events of mass violence, namely the Vietnam War, the Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge and the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, this work endeavours to highlight artworks that are not connected directly to the Cold War superpowers by taking a comparative, interregional and transnational approach. Using visual analysis along with the histories and memories surrounding the events of mass killings, this paper attempts to place Southeast Asian artworks created with regards to the discussed events in conversation with one another. This thesis seeks to contribute to literature about the Cold War and mass killings in Southeast Asia through the analysis of related artworks.
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title Visualising violence : art and remembrance of mass killings in Cold War Southeast Asia
title_short Visualising violence : art and remembrance of mass killings in Cold War Southeast Asia
title_full Visualising violence : art and remembrance of mass killings in Cold War Southeast Asia
title_fullStr Visualising violence : art and remembrance of mass killings in Cold War Southeast Asia
title_full_unstemmed Visualising violence : art and remembrance of mass killings in Cold War Southeast Asia
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