Images performing history

Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans • Boek • paperback

• Samenvatting
  The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history.
  History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in different ways, the operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history. Not limited to a particular artistic medium, they demonstrate how history is forged through enacting or re-enacting its past forms, while, on the other hand, they indicate how copying and quoting can contribute to creating a new, operative aesthetics. By foregrounding a performative character of images, art is shown to construct an alternative knowledge of the past.
  
  Among others the works of the following artists are discussed in this book: Zofia Kulik, Yael Bartana, Harun Farocki and Andrej Ujica, Luc Tuymans, Dierk Schmidt.
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Paperback
  Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
  Formaat : 172mm x 231mm
  Aantal pagina's : Niet bekend
  Uitgeverij : Leuven University Press
  ISBN : 9789462700291
  Datum publicatie : 04-2015
  
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