Jean-Yves Jouannais Livres

Is it possible to represent war other than by images of combat, corpses and rubble? Topographies of War features photographic and video works that ignore confrontation, injury and death, and instead document war in a disembodied way through its sites, territories and constructed spaces. This book contains topographical essays that explore war through its geography, without denying the human cost of fighting. In terms of military strategy, such iconographic choices coincide with the increased use of simulation techniques and the spread of long-range weaponry, as well as with the military’s media censorship and the virtual impossibility for photographers and video-makers to operate freely on the ground. Has the territory of war become an abstract concept, an ideological construction, a given that cannot be represented? Topographies of War tackles this question through the work of Jananne Al-Ani, Luc Delahaye, Harun Farocki, An-My Lê, Paola De Pietri, Walid Raad, Jo Ractliffe, Till Roeskens, Eyal Weizman and Donovan Wylie.

Albert Speer, Naram-Sin de Acad, Escipión Emiliano, Irma Schrader, Shang Yang, Stig Dagerman, Sapor I o Bernardo Bellotto son algunas de las figuras que vivieron el asedio de una ciudad como vencedores, vencidos o simples testigos. A través de sus retratos, este libro reconstruye una historia del mundo desde la perspectiva que ofrece el panorama de las ciudades en ruinas, de la Mesopotamia anterior a la escritura hasta la Zona Cero de Nueva York tras el 11 de septiembre de 2001. A medio camino entre la digresión erudita y la ensoñación, Jean-Yves Jouannais erige sobre los escombros de nuestra memoria un inventario a un tiempo caprichoso y razonado de las heridas de guerra más desgarradoras e indelebles