Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma - Hardcover

 
9781735762913: Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1735762911 ISBN 13: 9781735762913
Publisher: MW Editions/The Warehouse, 2021

Synopsis

How art has addressed and transmuted trauma over the past half-century, from Louise Bourgeois to Glenn Ligon

Trauma in all its forms―internal and external, individual and collective―has been an enduring theme in 20th- and 21st-century art. The proliferation of violent imagery, particularly since the expansion of mass media during and after World War II, has led to artworks that marshal consciousness of traumatic events and their cultural processing. These developments in art run parallel with the emergence of trauma studies, which confront the repercussions of traumatic events: the Holocaust, global conflict, sexual violence, systemic racism and gender discrimination. Psychic Wounds brings together artists from the mid-20th century to the present who have addressed trauma in their work. The book also contains an anthology of critical writings on trauma by curators, art historians and theorists, among them Robert Storr, Griselda Pollock, Huey Copeland and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

Artists include: Gerhard Richter, Kazuo Shiraga, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Glenn Ligon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman and Anicka Yi.

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Publisher
MW Editions/The Warehouse
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1735762911
ISBN 13 
9781735762913
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
407
Editor
Delahunty Gavin