Memory fragments : visualising difference in Australian history / Marita Bullock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bullock, Marita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Australia.

Art.

Australia--History--In art.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking as its starting point four contemporary visual artists whose work utilizes the conventions of museum display and collecting practices, Memory Fragments examines how these artists have reconfigured dominant representations of Australian history and identity, including viewpoints often marginalized by gender and race. Echoing Walter Benjamin's reflections on history and time, this interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars working in the arts as well as modern and postmodern cultural studies.

Contents:

""Front Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: Collecting Junk/Collecting Memory""; ""Chapter 1: The Trash of History: The Timeliness of Benjamins Dialectical Images""

""Chapter 2: Fossilizing the Commodity: Ricky Swallows Art of Crafting Time in Postmodern Culture""""Chapter 3: China China: Autoethnography as Literal Translation in Ah Xian's Porcelain Forms ""; ""Chapter 4: Melancholy Debris: Black Humour and Colonial Memory in Work by Julie Gough ""

""Chapter 5: Australian Modernity: The Metaphorics of Mining in Donna Marcus Compositions""""After-Images: Visualising Difference""; ""Works Cited""; ""BackCover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781841506739

1841506737

OCLC:

794489819