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Making Memory Matter: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art
Lisa Saltzman
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Description for Making Memory Matter: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 8. Weight in Grams: 226.
In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first told, contemporary artists are returning to similar strategies of remembrance, ranging from vaudevillian silhouettes and sepulchral casts to incinerated architectures and ghostly processions. Exploring these artists' work, Saltzman demonstrates that their methods have now eclipsed painting and traditional sculpture as preeminent forms of visual representation. She pays particular attention to the groundbreaking art of ... Read more
In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first told, contemporary artists are returning to similar strategies of remembrance, ranging from vaudevillian silhouettes and sepulchral casts to incinerated architectures and ghostly processions. Exploring these artists' work, Saltzman demonstrates that their methods have now eclipsed painting and traditional sculpture as preeminent forms of visual representation. She pays particular attention to the groundbreaking art of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
221g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226734088
SKU
V9780226734088
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About Lisa Saltzman
Lisa Saltzman is associate professor of art history at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz and a coeditor of Trauma and Visuality in Modernity.
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