Now What?
Quandaries of Art and the Radical Past
Published on 2. March 2021
240 pages
978-0-8232-9394-0 (ISBN)
Description
Now What? is an innovative exploration of artworks and films that return to radical histories subject to erasure or otherwise lost or occluded over time. The moments returned to-the Cuban Revolution, Chile's 1973 coup d'etat, the ambiguous 1989 "revolution" in Romania, and the mayhem surrounding the Red Army Faction in 1970s West Germany-stand as historical watersheds, foundational and precipitate moments in the history of radical politics. Delving into these key historical moments by way of Tania Bruguera's 2009 performance Tatlin's Whisper in Havana, filmmaker Patricio Guzman's decades-long cycle of returns to Allende's Chile, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica's Videograms of a Revolution, Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest, the film Germany in Autumn, and Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 suite of paintings, Rachel Weiss convincingly threads these works together through subtle and illuminating reflections on the complex dynamics involved in historical trauma and memory, addressing key questions about the meanings and uses of the past.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
4 b/w illustrations
4 b/w illustrations
File size
5,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8232-9394-0 (9780823293940)
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03/2021
Fordham University Press
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Person
Rachel Weiss is Professor of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of To and From Utopia in the New Cuban Art.
Content
Introduction: Being Afterward 1
1 Lupe at the Mic
After January 1959, Havana, Cuba, in Tatlin's Whisper #6 11
2 The Tenuous Moonlight of an Unrequited Past
After September 11, 1973, Santiago de Chile, in The Battle
of Chile, Chile: Obstinate Memory, and Nostalgia for the Light 35
3 Something That Opens a Wish and Closes a Door
After December 1989, Romania, in Videograms of a Revolution,
Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, and 12:08 East of Bucharest 63
4 Whoever Knows the Truth Lies
After October 1977, West Germany, in Germany in Autumn and October 18, 1977 123
Conclusion: The Undersong of Our Histories 161
Acknowledgments 183
Notes 185
1 Lupe at the Mic
After January 1959, Havana, Cuba, in Tatlin's Whisper #6 11
2 The Tenuous Moonlight of an Unrequited Past
After September 11, 1973, Santiago de Chile, in The Battle
of Chile, Chile: Obstinate Memory, and Nostalgia for the Light 35
3 Something That Opens a Wish and Closes a Door
After December 1989, Romania, in Videograms of a Revolution,
Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, and 12:08 East of Bucharest 63
4 Whoever Knows the Truth Lies
After October 1977, West Germany, in Germany in Autumn and October 18, 1977 123
Conclusion: The Undersong of Our Histories 161
Acknowledgments 183
Notes 185
