Trauma and Visuality in Modernity
Will be published approx. on 19. March 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-58465-516-9 (ISBN)
Description
This groundbreaking collection is among the first in the field of art history to explore the relation between the traumatic and the visual field in the modern period. Ranging across media and spanning from the origins of modernity to the present, the essays gathered here pursue trauma as a structuring yet elusive subject of representation. Examining the most revelatory instances of encounter between event and image, between history and visual form, this collection offers an account of the centrality of trauma's visualization to an understanding of modernity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
20 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-58465-516-9 (9781584655169)
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Persons
LISA SALTZMAN is Associate Professor of Art History at Bryn Mawr College and author of Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz. ERIC ROSENBERG is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University, and has lectured widely on trauma and photography.
Content
Section One: Image; Trauma as Representation: A Meditation on Manet and Johns - Isabelle Wallace; Walker Evans' Depression and the Trauma of Photography - Eric Rosenberg; Section Two: Monument; Canova's Penitent Madeleine: On Trauma's Prehistory - Erika Naginski; When Memory Speaks: A Monument Bears Witness - Lisa Saltzman; Section Three: Performance and Installation; Car Crash, 1960 - Judith Rodenbeck; "Normal Ills": On Embodiment, Victimization, and the Origins of Feminist Art - Anna Chave; The "Rememory" of Slavery: Kara Walker's The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven - Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw; Section Four: Film; Literature and the Enactment of Memory (Duras, Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour) - Cathy Caruth; The Revivifying Artist: Christian Boltanski's Efforts to Close the Gap - Ernst van Alphen; Section Five: Historiography; The Post-Traumatic Turn and the Art of Walid Ra'ad and Krzystof Wodiczko: From Theory to Trope to Beyond - Mark Jarzombek.