Research Catalog

Title

Questioning history : imagining the past in contemporary art / compiled by Frank van der Stok ; edited by Frank van der Stok, Frits Gierstberg and Flip Bool.

Publication

Rotterdam : NAi Publishers ; New York : Available in North, South and Central America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stok, Frank van der.
• Gierstberg, Frits.
• Bool, Flip.

Description

180 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

"Within contemporary visual art and photography there has, for a number of years, been a growing interest in history. At the same time, history is presented as 'the' history with decreasing certainty, since social upheavals have, over the course of recent decades, led to a different view of 'the' history." "The mass media have assumed the role of historiographers on a massive scale. The flipside of this development is that visual culture is gradually losing the ability to convey history in all its variety. The mediatization and globalization of our culture is leading to the dulling of our collective historical awareness." "In reaction to this, contemporary artists are asking increasingly critical questions about the way in which the representation of the past is constructed. The attention paid to history among visual artists, photographers, filmmakers and other image producers may indeed be nothing new, but Questioning History focuses on recent developments that are essentially different in their handling of images."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Reflect ; #07

Uniform Title

Reflect (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; #07.

Alternative Title

Imagining the past in contemporary art

Subjects

• Art, Modern > 20th century
• Art, Modern > 21st century
• Art > Historiography
• Art and history

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Mirrored images : the world reflected in photographed eyes / Bianca Stigter -- Look, there are the Indians : Warbonnet Creek, Nebraska, USA / Peter Delpeut -- Do not disturb / Jennifer Allen -- A wolf that knows enough to keep its distance / David Levi Strauss -- A certain sense of adventure : or, the historical illusion / Maria Barnas -- The big history quiz / Frits Gierstberg -- Unsettled tensions : the Metropolitan Museum of Edward Milla / Vid Ingelevics -- Café-de-Move-On / Flip Bool -- Modern barbarism : on the derangement of the image of the past / Frank van Vree -- On future histories : and the generational contract with the no longer and not yet living and the pan-demonium of irrevent styles of nostalgia / Jan Verwoert -- Click here to disappear : some thoughts on images and democracy / David Levi Strauss -- Mental Images / Frank van der Stok -- No statistics : Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin / Val WIlliams -- Three stories about building new Belgrade / Zoran Erić -- Reservoir / Nickel van Duijvenboden -- Nanking restaurant : tracing opium in Calcutta / Joachim Koester -- Untitled (Onkehout) / Arnoud Holleman -- Situation leading to a story / Matthew Buckingham.

ISBN

• 9789056626594
• 9056626590

LCCN

2009422484

OCLC

• ocn247883570
• 247883570
• SCSB-1501193

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library