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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779700503321

Titolo

Performing memory in art and popular culture / / edited by Liedeke Plate and Anneke Smelik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-09066-1

0-203-07029-1

1-299-44812-7

1-135-09067-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; ; 48

Classificazione

SOC052000SOC022000ART009000

Altri autori (Persone)

PlateLiedeke

SmelikAnneke

Disciplina

700.1/08

Soggetti

Mass media and the arts

Collective memory

Art and popular culture

Literature - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Staging memory -- pt. 2. Spectral memories -- pt. 3. Embodied memories -- pt. 4. Mediating memories.

Sommario/riassunto

"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. "--