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Seeing witness visuality and the ethics of testimony

Title
Seeing witness [electronic resource] : visuality and the ethics of testimony / Jane Blocker.
Author
Blocker, Jane.
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

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Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 153 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Seeing witness (Online)
Alternative Title
Seeing witness (Online)
Subject
  • Subjectivity in art
  • Reality in art
  • Visual communication in art
  • Art, Modern > 21st century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
A promise always disappointing: the ethics of history in Ulay and Abramović's The lovers -- Peoples of memory: James Luna and the production of history -- Binding to another's wound: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ross McElwee on weddings -- A cemetery of images: photography and witness in the work of Gilles Peress and Alfredo Jaar -- Machine memory: digital witness in Dumb Type's memorandum -- This being you must create: transgenics, witness, and selfhood in the work of Eduardo Kac and Christine Borland -- The shame of biological being: microbiology and theories of subjectivity in a project by Ann Hamilton and Ben Rubin.
LCCN
2008029070
OCLC
ssj0000427910
Author
Blocker, Jane.
Title
Seeing witness [electronic resource] : visuality and the ethics of testimony / Jane Blocker.
Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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