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Learning how to fall : art and culture after September 11 / T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko.

LIBRA NX180.H57 C47 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cesare Schotzko, T. Nikki, author.
Contributor:
Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Arts and history--History--21st century.
Arts and history.
Arts and society--History--21st century.
Arts and society.
History, Modern, in art.
Truth (Aesthetics).
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xvi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Summary:
"Beginning with Richard Drew's controversial photograph of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, Learning How to Fall investigates the changing relationship between world events and their subsequent documentation, asking: does the mediatization of the event overwhelm the fact of the event itself? How does the mode by which information is disseminated alter the way in which we perceive such information? How does this impact upon our memory of an event? T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko posits contemporary art and performance not only as stylized re-envisioning of daily life, but inversely, as a viable means by which one might experience and process real-world poltical and social events."
Contents:
Introduction: the economy of the event
If not falling then flying: Richard Drew's Falling man and the politics of witnessing
The untruth of style: from Abramovic to Bradshaw and back again
Not yet finished, never yet begun: Aliza Shvarts, the Girl from West Virginia, and the consequence of doubt
Speaking truth to stupid: Aaron Sorkin's Episode "5/1" and the reassignment of truth
How time flies: a chronometry of The fall
Afterword afterword, after Phelan: notes on love, for my students.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
1138796891
9781138796881
1138796883
9781138796898
OCLC:
890462461
Publisher Number:
99962392708

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