Disturbing Pasts

Memories, Controversies and Creativity
Herausgeber: Wainwright, Leon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout the world, legacies of war, colonialism, genocide and oppression return again and again to dominate contemporary culture. This volume assembles artists, curators and academics to explore how such legacies can inspire creative approaches to remembering and challenging the past. Contributors begin with the idea that any meaningful encounter with the past has to be felt at a personal level, no matter how difficult an event may be to recall and represent. Recollecting stories of this kind is complex and sensitive, and the book demonstrates how the process can benefit from the joint efforts of people from different fields, including professional art practices, art history and visual culture studies, social anthropology, literary studies, history, museology and cultural policy studies. The result is a detailed global picture that presents a variety of new approaches to confronting dominant historical narratives and shaping alternative interpretations. Based on a major project of international collaboration supported by the European Science Foundation, Disturbing pasts gathers voices, histories and images from diverse contexts, including South Africa, Germany, Namibia, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 857g
• ISBN-13: 9781526115454
• ISBN-10: 152611545X
• Artikelnr.: 48810076

Autorenporträt

Leon Wainwright is Reader in Art History at The Open University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Disturbing pasts: memories, controversies and creativity -
Leon Wainwright Part I: Difficult pasts and public space 1 Echoes of the
Great War: the recordings of African prisoners in the First World War -
Annette Hoffmann 2 A Riot of Our Own: a reflection on agency - Carol
Tulloch 3 The exhibition Namibia-Germany: a shared/divided history.
Resistance, violence, memory - Clara Himmelheber 4 Break! On the
unpleasant, the marginal, the taboo and the controversial in Norwegian
museums - Liv Ramskjaer 5 Making meaning from a fragmented past: 1897 and
the creative process - Peju Layiwola 6 Mallaby's car: colonial subjects,
imperial actors and the representation of human suffering in postcolonial
exhibitions - Susan Legêne Part II: Visual investigations 7 Comments on the
art and research project 'The division of the earth: tableaux on the legal
synopses of the Berlin Africa conference' - Dierk Schmidt and Malte
Jaguttis 8 Late photography, military landscapes and the politics of memory
- Simon Faulkner 9 Forced displacement, suffering and the aesthetics of
loss - MaruSka SvaSek 10 Nuclear war as false memory - John Timberlake
Part III: Collaborations 11 Spatial dialogues and the memory of absent Jews
in contemporary Polish art: Yael Bartana, Rafal Betlejewski and Joanna
Rajkowska - Uilleam Blacker 12 Margit Ellinor: forgotten images - Bente
Geving 13 Assimilating the wild and primitive: Lajla and other Sami
heroines in Norwegian fin-de-siecle photography - Sigrid Lien 14 Troubled
traces: painting and displaying intercultural traumas of Aboriginality -
Heather Kamarra Shearer 15 Empowering art: reconfiguring narratives of
trauma and hope in the Australian national imaginary - Fiona Magowan Index