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Seeing witness : visuality and the ethics of testimony

Title: Seeing witness : visuality and the ethics of testimony / Jane Blocker.
Author: Blocker, Jane.
Publication: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.

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Description

xxiii, 153 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Imagery specialists -- I. History. 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 -- II. Technology. 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 -- III. Biopower. 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 -- Conclusion: A mysterious picture of God.

ISBN

9780816654765
081665476X
9780816654772
0816654778

LCCN

2008029070

OCLC

ocn233798811
233798811
SCSB-1514557

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library