TY - JOUR
T1 - The desire for space
T2 - stains in Zoltan Kluger’s institutional photography
AU - Konopny-Decleve, Livnat
AU - Yanay, Niza
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 International Visual Sociology Association.
PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - The article studies the construction of Zionist space in Kluger’s institutional photographs in an attempt to understand the ideological desire for space in Zionist imagistic propaganda. The analysis employs Lacanian ‘stains’ as well as strategies of art interpretation to suggest that behind the image of Sisyphean work of men toiling the land stands the Zionist ‘law’ (in contrast to the female jouissance) which comes to signify the Jewish return to history after the fall from divine grace. This paper demonstrates by what means Kluger’s photographs echoed and propagated the Zionist unconscious based on western and Christian desire for eternity and redemption of the land, even if it meant sacrificing the sons in exchange for eternal life and the return to grace.
AB - The article studies the construction of Zionist space in Kluger’s institutional photographs in an attempt to understand the ideological desire for space in Zionist imagistic propaganda. The analysis employs Lacanian ‘stains’ as well as strategies of art interpretation to suggest that behind the image of Sisyphean work of men toiling the land stands the Zionist ‘law’ (in contrast to the female jouissance) which comes to signify the Jewish return to history after the fall from divine grace. This paper demonstrates by what means Kluger’s photographs echoed and propagated the Zionist unconscious based on western and Christian desire for eternity and redemption of the land, even if it meant sacrificing the sons in exchange for eternal life and the return to grace.
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U2 - 10.1080/1472586X.2019.1637774
DO - 10.1080/1472586X.2019.1637774
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85070274452
SN - 1472-586X
VL - 34
SP - 53
EP - 66
JO - Visual Studies
JF - Visual Studies
IS - 1
ER -