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Shimon Attie's writing on the wall : history, memory, aesthetics / Peter Muir.

Title: Shimon Attie's writing on the wall : history, memory, aesthetics / Peter Muir.
Author: Muir, Peter, 1952-
Publication: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2010.

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Description

xii, 187 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

This work theorizes images from Attie's 'Writing on the Wall 1991-1993' installation as a memorial activity and as an index or habitation for history. Muir analyzes Attie's work by responding to a series of propositions arising from Walter Benjamin's text thesis 'On the Concept of History'.

Subject

Genre/Form

Art
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Memory and the Scheunenviertel site -- The space of forgetfulness -- The archival space -- Spaces of exception -- Allegory as a threshold space -- Mediating signs -- The tragic drama of Shimon Attie.

ISBN

9780754669630
0754669637

LCCN

2009047145
99940258931

OCLC

473117347
SCSB-10895543

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library