Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis Art in Post-Traumatic Cultures

by Pollock, Griselda

• ISBN13: 9781780763163
• ISBN10: 1780763166
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-12-23
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

In this innovative collection, a distinguished group of international authors dare to think psychoanalytically about the legacies of political violence and suffering in relation to post-traumatic cultures worldwide. They build on maverick art historian Aby Warburg's project of combining social, cultural, anthropological and psychological analyses of the image in order to track the undercurrents of cultural violence in the representational repertoire of Western modernity. Drawing on post-colonial and feminist theory, they analyze the image and the aesthetic in conditions of historical trauma, from enslavement and colonization to the Irish Famine, from Denmark's national trauma about migrants and cartoons to collective shock after 9/11, from individual traumas of loss registered in allegory to newsreels and documentaries on suicide bombing in Israel/Palestine, and from Kristeva's novels to Kathryn Bigelow's cinema.

Author Biography

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds, UK. Her books include Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art (2003), Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2007) and After-affect /After-image: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation (2013). She is editor of Conceptual Odysseys: Passages into Cultural Analysis (2007) and co-editor, with Antony Bryant, of Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotiating the Image (2010) both from I.B.Tauris. She is Series Editor of New Encounters series at I.B.Tauris.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations * Acknowledgements * Series Editor's Preface: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts * Introduction: Visual Politics and Psychoanalyses * National Wounds and Contested Memory * Contest-Nation: Denmark– A PSTD-Struck Nation Contesting Analysis * Miniature Objects of Cultural Covenant: Transition and Translation in British North America * The Irish 'Holocaust' and the Commemoration of Famine * II Trauma and Allegory * Courbet's Trauerspiel: Trouble with Women in the Studio * Astonishing Marine Living: Ellen Gallagher at the Freud Museum * III Fear and Surveillance * Transfixed: The Expression of Emotion as a History of Images * Dan Graham, Reality Television and the Society of Surveillance * IV Violence and Sexual Difference * Towards an Iconomy of Violence: Julia Kristeva in the Between of Ethics and Politics * From Horrorism to Compassion: Re-facing Medusan Otherness in dialogue with Adriana Cavarero and Bracha Ettinger * Encountering Blue Steel: Changing Tempers in Cinema * Contributors' Biographies * Bibliography * Index