
Images Performing History
Photography and Representations of the Past in European Art after 1989
Katarzyna Ruchel Stockmans
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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).
1. 1989, Photography and History, Representation
2. The Revolution as a Technical Disturbance
3. Chaosmos: Montage as Spatial History
4. Future Pasts of a Community
Afterword—History on an Endless Trial
Notes
Format: Monograph - paperback
Size: 230 × 170 mm
298 pages
ISBN: 9789462700291
Publication: September 17, 2015
Series: Lieven Gevaert Series 20
Languages: English
Stock item number: 103840
Anne Ruygt, De Witte Raaf, Editie 196 november-december 2018