Technologies of memory in the arts / edited by Liedeke Plate and Anneke Smelik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plate, Liedeke.

Smelik, Anneke.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society.

Memory in art.

Memory in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

Technologies of Memory in the Arts focuses on the complex cultural process of remembering and forgetting the past. The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the idea that memories take shape in a social context, according to cultural practices. With a keen eye for the material and technological means involved in producing and processing memories, the authors look into the ways memories are captured and transformed in the arts. Technologies of Memory in the Arts deals with the question of how the arts can provide the site for framing and representing the past in a global present.

The essays in this volume present an international approach to the field of Memory and Trauma in Cultural Studies. They each explore how art has a particular stake in processing the past, assuming that art and artistic practices function as technologies of memory. Both traditional and new media are covered: paintings, souvenirs, science fiction films, memorials, novels, documentaries, comic strips and toys.

Contents:

Part I Mediating Memories

Introduction: Mediating Memories / Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik 15

1 Tourists of History: Souvenirs, Architecture and the Kitschification of Memory / Marita Sturken 18

2 Minimalism, Memory and the Reflection of Absence / Wouter Weijers 36

3 The Virtuality of Time: Memory in Science Fiction Films / Anneke Smelik 52

Part II Memory/Counter-memory

Introduction: Memory/Counter-memory / Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik 71

4 The Astonishing Return of Blake and Mortimer: Francophone Fantasies of Britain as Imperial Power and Retrospective Rewritings / Ann Miller 74

5 Writing Back Together: The Hidden Memories of Rochester and Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea / Nagihan Haliloglu 86

6 Liquid Memories: Women's Rewriting in the Present / Liedeke Plate 100

Part III Recalling the Past

Introduction: Recalling the Past / Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik 117

7 The Matter and Meaning of Childhood through Objects / Elizabeth Wood 120

8 The Force of Recalling: Pain in Visual Arts / Marta Zarzycka 132

9 Photographs that Forget: Contemporary Recyclings of the Hitler-Hoffmann Rednerposen / Frances Guerin 150

Part IV Unsettling History

Introduction: Unsettling History / Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik 169

10 Facing Forward with Found Footage: Displacing Colonial Footage in Mother Dao and the Work of Fiona Tan / Julia Noordegraaf 172

11 Documentaries and Mediated Popular Histories: Shaping Memories and Images of Slovenia's past / Maruša Pušnik 188

12 Impossible Histories: Violence, Identity, and Memory in Colombian Visual Arts / Marta Cabrera 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230575677

0230575676

OCLC:

298778543