"This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasingly employed in both grand and modest efforts to preserve the past amid rapid social change. The chapters in Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form provide valuable insights concerning not only how memories may be seen (or sighted) in visual form but also how visual forms constitute noteworthy material sites of memory. The collection addresses this central theme with a wealth of interdisciplinary and international approaches, featuring conventional scholarly as well as artistic works from such disciplines as rhetoric and communication, art and art history, architecture, landscape studies, and more, by contributors from around the globe"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Contents
Cover; Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form Sighting Memory; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I :Places and Spaces; 1. Memory Lines: The Plotting of New York's New Military Tract; 2. The Unexpected Encounter: Confronting Holocaust Memory in the Streets of Post-Wall Berlin; 3. "A Disturbance of Memory": Travel, Recollection, and the Experience of Place; 4. Woodland Cemetery: Modernism and Memory; Part II : Monuments and Memorials; 5. Ephemeral Visibility and the Art of Mourning: Eyes Wide Open Traveling Exhibit
6. Patterns of Ambivalence: The Space between Memory and Form7. Denying Denial: Trauma, Memory, and Automobility at Roadside Car Crash Shrines; 8. Dark Elegy: The Embodiment of Terrorism in the American Memorial Landscape; Part III : Media and Mediums; 9. Memory through the Perpetrator's Lens: Witnessing via Images Taken by Wehrmacht Soldiers and Offi cers on the Eastern Front; 10. Inherited and New Memories; 11. The Diffusion of an Atomic Icon: Nuclear Hegemony and Cultural Memory Loss; 12. Silenced Memories: Forgetting War in Finnish Public Paintings
13. Making Memories: Tragic Tourism's Visual TracesContributors; Index
ISBN
1-136-63353-7
1-136-63354-5
0-203-80340-X
OCLC
798533528
783740347
773418819
Doi
10.4324/9780203803400
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