Trauma and Visuality in Modernity

Trauma and Visuality in Modernity

ISBN-10:
158465516X
ISBN-13:
9781584655169
Pub. Date:
02/17/2006
Publisher:
Dartmouth College Press
ISBN-10:
158465516X
ISBN-13:
9781584655169
Pub. Date:
02/17/2006
Publisher:
Dartmouth College Press
Trauma and Visuality in Modernity

Trauma and Visuality in Modernity

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Overview

This groundbreaking collection is among the first in the field of art history to explore the relation between the traumatic and the visual field in the modern period. Ranging across media and spanning from the origins of modernity to the present, the essays gathered here pursue trauma as a structuring yet elusive subject of representation. Examining the most revelatory instances of encounter between event and image, between history and visual form, this collection offers an account of the centrality of trauma’s visualization to an understanding of modernity.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781584655169
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Publication date: 02/17/2006
Series: Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

LISA SALTZMAN is Associate Professor of Art History at Bryn Mawr College and author of Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz. ERIC ROSENBERG is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University, and has lectured widely on trauma and photography.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Lisa Saltzman and Eric Rosenberg
IMAGE
Isabelle Wallace, Trauma as Representation: A Meditation on Manet and Johns
Eric Rosenberg, Walker Evans’s Depression and the Trauma of Photography
MONUMENT
Erika Naginski, Canova’s Penitent Magdalene: On Trauma’s Prehistory
Lisa Saltzman, When Memory Speaks: A Monument Bears Witness
PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION
Judith F. Rodenbeck, Car Crash, 1960
Anna C. Chave, “Normal Ills”: On Embodiment, Victimization, and the Origins of Feminist Art
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, The “Rememory” of Slavery: Kara Walker’s The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven
FILM
Cathy Caruth, Literature and the Enactment of Memory: (Duras, Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour)
Ernst van Alphen, The Revivifying Artist: Boltanski’s Efforts to Close the Gap
HISTORIOGRAPHY
Mark Jarzombek, The Post-traumatic Turn and the Art of Walid Ra’ad and Krzysztof Wodiczko: From Theory to Trope to Beyond
Epilogue: Lisa Saltzman and Eric Rosenberg
List of Contributors
Index

What People are Saying About This

Rebecca Schneider

"This collection helpfully amplifies a vivid set of questions that haunt art and objecthood in modernity and that situate art objects, images, and acts as, themselves, haunting. What is it to 'witness' art when art itself may bear unspeakable witness to history's traumatic events or their aftershocks? The editors have carefully chosen texts that continue to open out the visual field to its extra-visual intimations and its phenomenal effects, adding art historical depth to the deeply modern hope that the visual field is always more than meets the eye and more than can neatly congeal in narrative, in memory, or in time."

Michael Leja

"Art's engagement with the horrors of modern history and the traumas they have induced has been deep, persistent, wrenching, evolving, and frustrating. The essays in this volume explore that relationship with imagination, insight, and passion, ranging widely across forms of trauma, artistic media and styles, and interpretive approaches."

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