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Let Them Haunt Us: How Contemporary Aesthetics Challenge Trauma as the Unrepresentable

By Förderer und Ehemaligen der Freien Universität Berlin e.V. , Anna-Lena Werner; Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes; Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft der Freunde

Book information

Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Year
2020
ISBN
9783839450468
DOI
10.1515/9783839450468
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19369941 bytes)
Series
Image; 168
Pages
260\260
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 05:58:06

Description

»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.

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