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Memory art in the contemporary world : confronting violence in the global south

Title: Memory art in the contemporary world : confronting violence in the global south / Andreas Huyssen.
Author: Huyssen, Andreas
Publication: London, UK : Lund Humphries, 2022.

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Description

184 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Summary

"Memory Art in the Contemporary World discusses with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and civil war. It focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic, including William Kentridge, Vivan Sundaram, Doris Salcedo, Nalini Malani and Guillermo Kuitca, all of whom reflect on historical situations specific to their own countries but in work which has been shown to have a transnational reach. Andreas Huyssen considers their dual investment in memories of state violence and memories of modernism as central to the affective power of their work. This thought-provoking and highly relevant book reflects on the various forms and critical potential of memory art in a contemporary world which both obsesses about the past, in the building of monuments and museums and an emphasis on retro and nostalgia in popular culture, and simultaneously fosters historical amnesia in increasingly flattened notions of temporality encouraged by the internet and social media."--

Series Statement

New directions in contemporary art

Uniform Title

New directions in contemporary art.

Subject

Genre/Form

Art criticism.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-174) and index.

Contents

Disappearances/spaces of violence : Kuitca's painting and Salcedo's sculpture -- Installation as form : Sundaram's Memorial and Salcedo's Casa Viuda and Untitled -- Installation in urban space : Salcedo, Noviembre 6&7, and Kentridge, Triumphs and laments -- The shadow play as medium : Nalini Malani and William Kentridge -- Traveling trauma tropes : Salcedo Atrabiliarios, and Sundaram, 12 bed ward/ Trash/The ascension of Marian Hussain -- Re-coding museum space : Salcedo, Shibboleth and Sundaram, History project -- Memory museums : Santiago de Chile's Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos and Bogotá's Fragmentos -- Coda: Space/time : Guzmán, Nostalgia de la luz and Kentridge The refusal of time.

Call Number

JQD 23-39

ISBN

9781848224223
1848224222

OCLC

1317683101

Author

Huyssen, Andreas author.

Title

Memory art in the contemporary world : confronting violence in the global south / Andreas Huyssen.

Publisher

London, UK : Lund Humphries, 2022.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New directions in contemporary art

New directions in contemporary art.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-174) and index.

Biography

Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he served as founding director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society. He is also a founding editor of New German Critique (1974-). His many publications include After the Great Divide (1986), Present Pasts (2003), William Kentridge, Nalini Malani: The Shadowplay as Medium of Memory (2013) and Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film (2015).

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781848224247

Research Call Number

JQD 23-39

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