Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and civil war. The book focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic, including William Kentridge, V…
Este libro sugerente y de gran relevancia reflexiona sobre las formas y el potencial crítico del arte de la memoria en un mundo obsesionado con el pasado, la construcción de monumentos y museos y con un énfasis en lo retro y la nostalgia de la cultura popular al tiempo que fomenta la amnesia histórica en nociones cada vez más aplanadas de temporalidad. El arte de la memoria transnacional, …
Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and civil war. The book focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic, including William Kentridge, V…