Contemporary art and memory : images of recollection and remembrance /
Gibbons, Joan.
Contemporary art and memory : images of recollection and remembrance / Joan Gibbons. - London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2007. - xiv, 189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Also available on Ebrary.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-182) and index.
Autobiography: The externalisation of personal memory -- Traces: Memory and indexicality -- Revisions: The reassembling of h̀istory\' -- Postmemory: T̀he ones born afterwards\' -- Enactments, Re-enactments and episodic memory -- The ordering of knowledge: museums and archives -- Epilogue- Oblivion: The limits of memory.
This survey book explores the subject of memory as it appears in its guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and public memory, the author explores art as autobiography, the memory as trace, the role of the archive, revisionist memory and postmemory, as well as the absence of memory in the notion of oblivion. Grounding her discussion in historical precedents, Gibbons explores the work of a wide range of international artists including Yinka Shonibare MBE, Doris Salcedo, Keith Piper, Jeremy Deller, Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Christian Boltanski, Janet Cardiff, Pierre Huyghe, Susan Hiller, Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiucchi, sound artist Bill Fontana and new media artist George Legrady.--Back cover.
9781845116194
Memory in art.
Autobiographical memory in art.
Art, Modern--20th century
Art, Modern--21st century
Art and history.
709.045
Contemporary art and memory : images of recollection and remembrance / Joan Gibbons. - London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2007. - xiv, 189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Also available on Ebrary.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-182) and index.
Autobiography: The externalisation of personal memory -- Traces: Memory and indexicality -- Revisions: The reassembling of h̀istory\' -- Postmemory: T̀he ones born afterwards\' -- Enactments, Re-enactments and episodic memory -- The ordering of knowledge: museums and archives -- Epilogue- Oblivion: The limits of memory.
This survey book explores the subject of memory as it appears in its guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and public memory, the author explores art as autobiography, the memory as trace, the role of the archive, revisionist memory and postmemory, as well as the absence of memory in the notion of oblivion. Grounding her discussion in historical precedents, Gibbons explores the work of a wide range of international artists including Yinka Shonibare MBE, Doris Salcedo, Keith Piper, Jeremy Deller, Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Christian Boltanski, Janet Cardiff, Pierre Huyghe, Susan Hiller, Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiucchi, sound artist Bill Fontana and new media artist George Legrady.--Back cover.
9781845116194
Memory in art.
Autobiographical memory in art.
Art, Modern--20th century
Art, Modern--21st century
Art and history.
709.045