A pedagogy of witnessing : curatorial practice and the pursuit of social justice / Roger I. Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Roger I., author.

Series:

SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education.

SUNY series, Transforming Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Studies in Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public history.

Social justice--Psychological aspects.

Social justice.

Museum exhibits--Social aspects.

Museum exhibits.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book focuses on two museum exhibitions that presented the same lynching photographs. Through a detailed description of the exhibitions and drawing on interviews with museum staff and visitor comments, Roger I. Simon explores the affective challenges to thought that lie behind the different curatorial frameworks and how viewers' comments on the exhibitions perform a particular conversation about race in America. He then extends the discussion to include contrasting exhibitions of photographs of atrocities committed by the German army on the Eastern Front during World War II, as well as to photographs taken at the Khmer Rouge S-21 torture and killing center. With an insightful blending of theoretical and qualitative analysis, Simon proposes new conceptualizations for a contemporary public pedagogy dedicated to bearing witness to the documents of racism.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""1. Exhibiting Archival Photographs of Racial Violence as a Pedagogy of Witness""; ""The Curation of Difficult Knowledge""; ""The Problematic Pedagogy of Bearing Witness?""; ""Pedagogy and Curation""; ""Curatorial Practice and the Pursuit of Social Justice""; ""2. Without Sanctuary Exhibitions at the Andy Warhol Museum and Chicago Historical Society""; ""The Without Sanctuary Exhibit at the Andy Warhol Museum""; ""The Without Sanctuary Exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society""

""The Selection and Labeling of the Lynching Photographs Displayed""""Differences in Exhibition Design""; ""3. The Curatorial Work of Exhibiting Archival Photographs of Lynching in America""; ""Presenting Images of Racial Violence: The Public Pedagogy of Museum Display""; ""Pedagogical Perspectives from the Andy Warhol Museum Staff""; ""Pedagogical Perspectives from the Chicago Historical Society Staff""; ""Institutional Positioning Within the Racial Formation of the United States""; ""The Without Sanctuary Exhibition and the Racialization of the Andy Warhol Museum""

""The Without Sanctuary Exhibition and the Racialization of the Chicago Historical Society""""The Practice and the Responsibility of Memory in Exhibitions of Lynching Photographs""; ""Perspectives on Memorialization from the Andy Warhol Museum""; ""Perspectives on Memorialization from the Chicago Historical Society""; ""The Affective Force of Images of Lynching on Museum Staff""; ""The Affective Force of the Images at the Andy Warhol Museum""; ""The Affective Force of the Images at the Chicago Historical Society""; ""A Brief Coda""

""4. Public Performance in the Social Space of Museum Comment Books: Without Sanctuary Exhibitions and the Extended Conversation about Race in America""""The Social Space of the Comment Books at the Without Sanctuary Exhibitions""; ""Collecting the Comments""; ""Analyzing the Comments: Level One Themes""; ""Tracking Differences in Visitor Responses""; ""Affective Expression: Explicit Emotions and the Graphic Representation of Feeling""; ""Photography and History: Differences in How Images Speak to Us""; ""What Might be Meant by a Useable Past?""

""Redeeming the Past: Hope, Action, Identity""""Images of Racial Violence and Anxious Conversations Regarding Race in America""; ""5. Curatorial Judgment, the Pedagogical Framing of Exhibitions, and the Relation of Affect and Thought""; ""Two Exhibitions Addressing the Crimes of the German Armed Forces During World War II""; ""Exhibiting Photographs from S-21""; ""Beyond a Pedagogy of Witness""; ""6. Some Closing Remarks on Curatorial Practice and the Pursuit of Social Justice""; ""Remembrance and the Prospect of Hope""

""Exhibitions and Various Ways of Linking the Past, Present, and Future""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438452715

1438452713

OCLC:

890692860