Memory

Name: Memory
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ISBN: 9780262517768

ISBN-10: 0262517760

ISBN-13: 9780262517768

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ian Farr

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This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories, the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of "haunting" and the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association, repetition and reappearance, as well as forms of "active" forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1940s onward, ranging from reperformances such as Marina Abramovic's Seven Easy Pieces (embodied resurrections of decades-removed performance pieces by her contemporaries) to the inanimate trace of "memory" Robert Morris assigns to his free-form felt pieces, which "forget" in their present…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Ian Farr is commissioning editor for Documents of Contemporary Art. He was formerly an editor of Phaidon's Contemporary Artists and Themes & Movements series.