Abstract
Book review of The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis, by TJ Demos (2013).
Highlights
In The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis, the art historian and critic TJ Demos discusses what he terms moving images of globalisation (Demos 2013a, 21-32)
Through the structure of the case study rather than survey, The Migrant Image investigates the relationship between aesthetics and politics in artistic practices which seek to attain political significance through a renewed form of documentary
The main theoretical model for Demos’s politics of aesthetics is, Rancière’s The Politics of Aesthetics and the theorisations on film, film-essay, and documentary fiction he developed in Film Fables (Rancière 2004; Rancière 2006)
Summary
In The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis, the art historian and critic TJ Demos discusses what he terms moving images of globalisation (Demos 2013a, 21-32). This book grapples with the inspired aesthetic innovations responsive to such developments, according to which artists have invented critical documentary strategies and new modellings of affect, creative modes of mobile images and imaginative videos, with which to negotiate the increased movements of life across the globe” (Demos 2013a, xiv).
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