Contemporary art and memory : images of recollection and remembrance / Joan Gibbons.
By: Gibbons, Joan
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2007Description: xiv, 189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781845116194.Subject(s): Memory in art | Autobiographical memory in art | Art, Modern -- 20th century | Art, Modern -- 21st century | Art and historyDDC classification: 709.045 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and public memory, Gibbons 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 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, Bill Fontana, Pierre Huyghe, Susan Hiller, Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi and new media artist George Legrady."Contemporary Art and Memory" will be indispensable to all those concerned with the ways in which artists represent and remember the past.?????
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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.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. ix)
- Foreword (p. xiii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Autobiography: The Externalisation of Personal Memory (p. 9)
- 2 Traces: Memory and Indexicality (p. 29)
- 3 Revisions: The Reassembling of 'History' (p. 52)
- 4 Postmemory: 'The Ones Born Afterwards' (p. 73)
- 5 Enactments, Re-enactments and Episodic Memory (p. 96)
- 6 The Ordering of Knowledge: Museums and Archives (p. 118)
- Epilogue - Oblivion: The Limits of Memory (p. 141)
- Notes (p. 149)
- Bibliography (p. 173)
- Index (p. 183)