Let them haunt us :: how contemporary aesthetics challenge trauma as the unrepresentable /

"Let Them Haunt Us" analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically challenges its canonical status as "unrepresentable". Focusing on case studies in the aesthetic practices of Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Omer Fast, Forensic Architecture, and Paul M...

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Main Author: Werner, Anna-Lena (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2020]
Series:Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 168.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"Let Them Haunt Us" analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically challenges its canonical status as "unrepresentable". Focusing on case studies in the aesthetic practices of Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Omer Fast, Forensic Architecture, and Paul McCarthy this book proposes to redefine trauma as a productive framework to exploring individual, collective, and cultural conflicts addressed in current artistic and curatorial practices. It considers the aesthetic realm as a potential forum that provides methods of understanding the humanitarian consequences of violence and warfare, and to reveal the effects of trauma on visual culture, collective memory, and politics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (260 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253).
ISBN:9783839450468
3839450462

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