This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing of memory new questions about the cultural dimensions of memory arise: How do art objects and artistic practices perform the past in the present? What is their relationship to the archive? Does the past speak in the performed past (or do we speak to it)? To what purpose do objects recall ? And for whom do they recollect? Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415811408
eBay Product ID (ePID)
141516042
Product Key Features
Book Title
Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Author
Anneke Smelik, Liedeke Plate
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Art & Culture
Number of Pages
230 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
476g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Editor
Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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