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

. Ed(s): Smith, Richard Candida

ISBN 10: 0415277965 / ISBN 13: 9780415277969

Published by Routledge, 2004

About this Item

This work investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Contributors are drawn from a range of backgrounds, including art and architectural history, film, theatre and performance studies, social and cultural history. Editor(s): Smith, Richard Candida. Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: ABA; AS; JFC; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680. . 2004. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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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: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415277965
• ISBN 13: 9780415277969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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).