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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.
- ISBN
- 9781848224223
- 1848224222
- 9781848224254 (Mobi ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781848224247 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781848224230 (pdf ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 99992454350
- OCLC
- on1317683101
- 1317683101
- SCSB-14473315
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries