Disturbing pasts: Memories, controversies and creativity - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 152611545X ISBN 13: 9781526115454

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This collection explores the creative responses of artists to the legacies of war, colonialism, genocide and oppression. Based on a major project of international collaboration supported by the European Science Foundation, it brings together professional art practices, art history and visual culture studies, social anthropology, literary studies, history, museology and cultural policy studies. Case studies are drawn from diverse contexts, including South Africa, Germany, Namibia, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Australia. The results reveal a courageous and carefully examined global picture, with a variety of new approaches to confronting dominant historical narratives and shaping alternative interpretations.

About this title

About the Author

Leon Wainwright is Lecturer in Art History at the Open University

From the Back Cover

Throughout the world, legacies of war, colonialism, genocide and oppression return again and again to dominate contemporary culture. This volume assembles artists, curators and academics to explore how such legacies can inspire creative approaches to remembering and challenging the past.

Contributors begin with the idea that any meaningful encounter with the past has to be felt at a personal level, no matter how difficult an event may be to recall and represent. Recollecting stories of this kind is complex and sensitive, and the book demonstrates how the process can benefit from the joint efforts of people from different fields, including professional art practices, art history and visual culture studies, social anthropology, literary studies, history, museology and cultural policy studies. The result is a detailed global picture that presents a variety of new approaches to confronting dominant historical narratives and shaping alternative interpretations.

Based on a major project of international collaboration supported by the European Science Foundation, Disturbing pasts gathers voices, histories and images from diverse contexts, including South Africa, Germany, Namibia, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Australia.

From the Inside Flap

Throughout the world, legacies of war, colonialism, genocide and oppression return again and again to dominate contemporary culture. This volume assembles artists, curators and academics to explore how such legacies can inspire creative approaches to remembering and challenging the past.Contributors begin with the idea that any meaningful encounter with the past has to be felt at a personal level, no matter how difficult an event may be to recall and represent. Recollecting stories of this kind is complex and sensitive, and the book demonstrates how the process can benefit from the joint efforts of people from different fields, including professional art practices, art history and visual culture studies, social anthropology, literary studies, history, museology and cultural policy studies. The result is a detailed global picture that presents a variety of new approaches to confronting dominant historical narratives and shaping alternative interpretations.Based on a major project of international collaboration supported by the European Science Foundation, Disturbing pasts gathers voices, histories and images from diverse contexts, including South Africa, Germany, Namibia, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 152611545X
• ISBN 13: 9781526115454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Wainwright Leon