Trauma And Visuality in Modernity

by Saltzman, Lisa; Rosenberg, Eric

• ISBN13: 9781584655169
• ISBN10: 158465516X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-17
• Publisher: Dartmouth College

Summary

This groundbreaking collection is among the first in the field of art history to explore the relation between the traumatic and the visual field in the modern period. Ranging across media and spanning from the origins of modernity to the present, the essays gathered here pursue trauma as a structuring yet elusive subject of representation. Examining the most revelatory instances of encounter between event and image, between history and visual form, this collection offers an account of the centrality of trauma's visualization to an understanding of modernity.

Author Biography

LISA SALTZMAN is Associate Professor of Art History at Bryn Mawr College and author of Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz. ERIC ROSENBERG is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University, and has lectured widely on trauma and photography.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Lisa Saltzman and Eric Rosenberg	ix
Part I IMAGE
Isabelle Wallace, Trauma as Representation: A Meditation on Manet and Johns	3	(25)
Eric Rosenberg, Walker Evans's Depression and the Trauma of Photography	28	(23)
Part II MONUMENT
Erika Naginski, Canova's Penitent Magdalene: On Trauma's Prehistory	51	(31)
Lisa Saltzman, When Memory Speaks: A Monument Bears Witness	82	(21)
Part III PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION
Judith F. Rodenbeck, Car Crash, 1960	103	(29)
Anna C. Chave, ``Normal Ills'': On Embodiment, Victimization, and the Origins of Feminist Art	132	(26)
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, The ``Rememory'' of Slavery: Kara Walker's The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven	158	(31)
Part IV FILM
Cathy Caruth, Literature and the Enactment of Memory: (Duras, Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour)	189	(33)
Ernst van Alphen, The Revivifying Artist: Boltanski's Efforts to Close the Gap	222	(27)
Part V HISTORIOGRAPHY
Mark Jarzombek, The Post traumatic Turn and the Art of Walid Ra'ad and Krzysztof Wodiczko: From Theory to Trope to Beyond	249	(23)
Epilogue: Lisa Saltzman and Eric Rosenberg	272	(5)
List of Contributors	277	(2)
Index	279