Art and the Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of Recollection

Richard Candida Smith

ISBN 10: 0415513944 / ISBN 13: 9780415513944

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art and the Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of Recollection
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415513944
• ISBN 13: 9780415513944
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 506 grams

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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).