In this title Martha Langford explores the nature of memory and art. She challenges the conventional emphasis on the camera as a tool of perception, arguing that photographic works are products of the mind: picturing memory is first and foremost the expression of a mental proces…
Making a connection between photography and memory is almost automatic. Should it be? In this book, the author explores the nature of memory and art.
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"Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own past or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory as history, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. Contemporary Art and Memory is the first accessible survey b…
Joan Gibbons explores the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and public memory, Gibbons explores art as autobiography, the memory as trace, the role of the archive, revisionist memory and postmemory, as well as the ab…
Joan Gibbons explores the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and public memory, Gibbons explores art as autobiography, the memory as trace, the role of the archive, revisionist memory and postmemory, as well as the ab…