Images Performing History

Q: Who wrote "Images Performing History"?

"Images Performing History" was written by Katarzyna Ruchel Stockmans. Katarzyna Ruchel Stockmans is Professor of Art History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Photography and Representations of the Past in European Art after 1989

Katarzyna Ruchel Stockmans (Author),

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Series: Lieven Gevaert Series 20

Category: Art, Media and Visual Culture, Photography

Language: English

ISBN: 9789462700291

Publication date: September 17, 2015

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Number of pages: 298

Size: 230 x 170 x mm

Stock item: 103840

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The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history.
History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in different ways, the operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history. Not limited to a particular artistic medium, they demonstrate how history is forged through enacting or re-enacting its past forms, while, on the other hand, they indicate how copying and quoting can contribute to creating a new, operative aesthetics. By foregrounding a performative character of images, art is shown to construct an alternative knowledge of the past. Among others the works of the following artists are discussed in this book: Zofia Kulik, Yael Bartana, Harun Farocki and Andrej Ujic, Luc Tuymans, Dierk Schmidt.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Acknowledgements Introduction: Unforeseen Histories
1. 1989, Photography and History, Representation End of (Certain) Histories Manifold Ends of History: Philosophy, Politics and Culture Photography and History—Four Patterns Questioning Representation: Art and History
2. The Revolution as a Technical Disturbance Televised Event—the New Image of the Revolutionary Masses Opposition and Identity “We are Victorious, the Television is with us” Revolution as a Return—1989 versus 1917
3. Chaosmos: Montage as Spatial History Zofia Kulik: Performative Archivist and Spatial Historian From Ornamental Structure to Self-representation Cyclical versus Linear Time—Gothic Window Photography, Archive, History 152
4. Future Pasts of a Community Return of Nightmares Reality and Fiction Wherever I Am Re-enactment and Utopian Community Bartana’s Nostalgic Projection 5. Painting History Photographically Between Photography and Painting Nationalism and Painting Private versus Public History Coda: Dierk Schmidt’s History in the Present
Afterword—History on an Endless Trial
Notes Bibliography

Katarzyna Ruchel Stockmans

Katarzyna Ruchel Stockmans is Professor of Art History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

De diverse kunstenaars in Ruchel-Stockmans’ onderzoek delen een fascinatie voor propaganda en de (verraderlijke) werking van beelden in de representatie en totstandkoming van geschiedenis. 'Images Performing History' biedt daarbij soms treffende beschouwingen, al vraagt dit onderzoek om een aangescherpt vervolg in de huidige, onstuimige tijd – de geschiedenis is allerminst voorbij.
Anne Ruygt, De Witte Raaf, Editie 196 november-december 2018

Frequently Asked Questions

What is "Images Performing History" about?

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Who wrote "Images Performing History"?

"Images Performing History" was written by Katarzyna Ruchel Stockmans.

Katarzyna Ruchel Stockmans is Professor of Art History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Is "Images Performing History" part of a series?

Yes, "Images Performing History" is part of the "Lieven Gevaert Series" series. It's book 20 in the series.

Named after a ground-breaking figure in the Belgian photography industry, the Lieven Gevaert Series is a peer reviewed series of innovative books on photography. Launched in 2004, the LG Series takes into account the ubiquitous presence of photography within modern culture and, in particular, the visual arts. At the forefront of contemporary thinking on photography, the books offer new insights in the position of the photographic medium within the art historical, theoretical, social and institutional contexts.

The Lieven Gevaert Series is published by Leuven University Press, in collaboration with 'The Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture' at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Université catholique de Louvain (www.lievengevaertcentre.be).

The series covers four types of publications:

outstanding monographic studies
multi-authored volumes on a specific topic
book length projects with artists
translations and/or reprints of classic texts.

All books are published in English and are written for an international audience of scholars.

Format

All books in the series are published in 17*23 cm paperback with French flaps, printed in black and white on white maco paper and with a maximum page extent of 300 pages (120.000 words) including images (unless agreed otherwise).

Authors interested in publishing their book in Open Access can check out the funding options here. Open access books are published under a creative commons license.

Series editors

Hilde Van Gelder, KU Leuven
Alexander Streitberger, UCLouvain

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What is the Table of Contents for "Images Performing History"?

Acknowledgements Introduction: Unforeseen Histories
1. 1989, Photography and History, Representation End of (Certain) Histories Manifold Ends of History: Philosophy, Politics and Culture Photography and History—Four Patterns Questioning Representation: Art and History
2. The Revolution as a Technical Disturbance Televised Event—the New Image of the Revolutionary Masses Opposition and Identity “We are Victorious, the Television is with us” Revolution as a Return—1989 versus 1917
3. Chaosmos: Montage as Spatial History Zofia Kulik: Performative Archivist and Spatial Historian From Ornamental Structure to Self-representation Cyclical versus Linear Time—Gothic Window Photography, Archive, History 152
4. Future Pasts of a Community Return of Nightmares Reality and Fiction Wherever I Am Re-enactment and Utopian Community Bartana's Nostalgic Projection 5. Painting History Photographically Between Photography and Painting Nationalism and Painting Private versus Public History Coda: Dierk Schmidt's History in the Present
Afterword—History on an Endless Trial
Notes Bibliography

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