17%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo's Political Art
Mieke Bal
€ 76.44
€ 63.42
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo's Political Art
Hardcover. Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. This title leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a 'theoretical object' that invites certain kinds of considerations about history and grief. Num Pages: 264 pages, 28 colour plates, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKB; AFKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. In "Of What One Cannot Speak", Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a 'theoretical object' that invites - and demands - certain kinds of considerations about history, death, erasure, and ... Read more
Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. In "Of What One Cannot Speak", Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a 'theoretical object' that invites - and demands - certain kinds of considerations about history, death, erasure, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226035789
SKU
V9780226035789
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Mieke Bal
Mieke Bal is Academy Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a cofounder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her many books include Loving Yusuf: Conceptual Travels from Present to Past, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo's Political Art
"Of What One Cannot Speak is the next innovative and brilliant book that will once again push the field of visual studies into unexplored areas.... Bal does not simply take Doris Salcedo's work as her starting point, and neither does she argue that the violence of the political is somehow merely 'reflected' in it. Instead, she embarks on a much ... Read more