Art and the Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of Recollection (Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative)

Smith, Richard Cándida (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0415277965 / ISBN 13: 9780415277969

Published by Routledge, 2002

About this Item

Covers different than pictured on Amazon. Book is in excellent condition, showing light rubbing/smudges to surfaces, slight bump at bottom corner of front board, a small note penned neatly to previous owner at bottom of title page, small notes penned to edges of photograph on page 121 and top of illustration on page 132, minor shelving wear to edges of boards; otherwise in great shape with tight binding and clean, mostly unmarked pages throughout. A good copy!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art and the Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of Recollection (Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415277965
• ISBN 13: 9780415277969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, the book highlights the distinction between enactive and cognitive memory and the implications of this for artists and their publics.

About the Author

Richard Cándida Smith is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the Director of the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. He focuses on the modern intellectual and cultural history of the arts. He is the author of Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California (1995) and Mallarmé’s Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience (1999).