Crisis and collection : German visual memory archives of the twentieth century / Doris McGonagill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGonagill, Doris.

Contributor:

Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory in art.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

209 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, [2015]

Summary:

This study traces how the art historian Aby Warburg, the writer W.G. Sebald, and the artist Gerhard Richter explore collective cultural memory embedded in contemporary visual symbols. The work establishes previously unnoted intellectual connections between their respective visual memory archives and the intellectual traditions that inform them. Diagnosing and describing how the reinvention of the album and the atlas as organizational models of narrative and pictorial presentation coincide with the contemporary fascination with social networks supplied by platforms such as Facebook, this study argues that the hybridity of the models allows the association of disparate fields of knowledge and memory that speaks to contemporary audiences and explains the persistent fascination with the memory archives at hand.

Notes:

Dissertation.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783826049514

3826049519

OCLC:

903519803

Publisher Number:

9783826049514