Making Memory Matter Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art

Name: Making Memory Matter Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art
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ISBN: 9780226734088

ISBN-10: 0226734080

ISBN-13: 9780226734088

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lisa Saltzman

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In an ancient account of painting’s origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first told, contemporary artists are returning to similar strategies of remembrance, ranging from vaudevillian silhouettes and sepulchral casts to incinerated architectures and ghostly processions.nbsp; Exploring these artists’ work, Saltzman demonstrates that their methods have now eclipsed painting and traditional sculpture as preeminent forms of visual representation. She pays particular attention to the groundbreaking art of Krzysztof Wodiczko, who…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Notes on the Postindexical: An Introduction



When Memory Speaks: A Monument Bears Witness



Negative Images: How a History of Shadows Might Illuminate the Shadows of History



What Remains


Notes


Index