Rhetoric Remembrance And Visual Form Sighting Memory Anne Demo Editor by Anne Demo (editor), Bradford Vivian (editor) 9780415895538, 0415895537 instant download after payment.

Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form presents a detailed and thematically organized analysis of such complex material (and not merely metaphorical) intersections among memory and visual forms that will broaden our understanding of their mutual provenance. The volume builds upon and synthesizes a hitherto loosely related cluster of inquires into past and present associations between visual and memorial forms. Its primary contribution
is to demonstrate more concretely the potentially indivisible union of seeing and remembering in modern art, society, and politics—to show how visual artifacts materially facilitate practices of remembrance and, conversely, how the work of memory consists in viewing the past from an artful or strategically selected vantage. Our contributors aptly address these thick imbrications among visual and memorial dynamics from international
as well as interdisciplinary perspectives: the case studies to come feature a wide spectrum of not only disciplinary perspectives but also cultural experiences, encompassing Cuban, European, North American, and Pacific (in other words, global) practices of spectatorship and remembrance. Any narrowly defined disciplinary or cultural approach to the central theme of this volume, we contend, would fail to account sufficiently for the patently
transnational and intercultural character of seeing as a mode or remembering,
or of remembering as a mode of seeing, in modern public culture.