Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations
A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations investigates contemporary protest self-burnings and their echoes across culture.
The book provides a conceptual frame for the phenomenon and an annotated, comprehensive timeline of suicide protests by fire, supplemented with notes on artworks inspired by or devoted to individual cases. The core of the publication consists of six case studies of these ultimate act...
A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations investigates contemporary protest self-burnings and their echoes across culture.
The book provides a conceptual frame for the phenomenon and an annotated, comprehensive timeline of suicide protests by fire, supplemented with notes on artworks inspired by or devoted to individual cases. The core of the publication consists of six case studies of these ultimate act...
