Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia

Alison Miller

ISBN 10: 9004687564 / ISBN 13: 9789004687561

Published by Brill, NL, 2024

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Transposed Memory explores the visual culture of national recollection in modern and contemporary East Asia by emphasizing memories that are under the continuous process of construction, reinforcement, alteration, resistance, and contestation. Expanding the discussion of memory into visual culture by exploring various visual sites of recollection, and the diverse ways commemoration is represented in visual, cultural, and material forms, this book produces cross-cultural and interdisciplinary conversations on memory and site by bringing together international scholars from the fields of art history, history, architecture, and theater and dance, examining intercultural relationships in East Asia through geopolitical conditions and visual culture.With contributions of Rika Iezumi Hiro, Ruo Jia, Burglind Jungmann, Hong Kal, Stephen McDowall, Alison J. Miller, Jessica Nakamura, Eunyoung Park, Travis Seifman, and Linh D. Vu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004687564
• ISBN 13: 9789004687561
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 19.05W x 1.91H x 24.77D centimeters 19.05 centimeters width by 1.91 centimeters height by 24.77 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1 gram

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Synopsis

Transposed Memory explores the visual culture of national recollection in modern and contemporary East Asia by emphasizing memories that are under the continuous process of construction, reinforcement, alteration, resistance, and contestation. Expanding the discussion of memory into visual culture by exploring various visual sites of recollection, and the diverse ways commemoration is represented in visual, cultural, and material forms, this book produces cross-cultural and interdisciplinary conversations on memory and site by bringing together international scholars from the fields of art history, history, architecture, and theater and dance, examining intercultural relationships in East Asia through geopolitical conditions and visual culture.

With contributions of Rika Iezumi Hiro, Ruo Jia, Burglind Jungmann, Hong Kal, Stephen McDowall, Alison J. Miller, Jessica Nakamura, Eunyoung Park, Travis Seifman, and Linh D. Vu.

About the Author

Alison J. Miller, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies at the University of the South (Sewanee). She has published on images of women in the two-dimensional media of late 19th and early 20th century Japan and is the author of the forthcoming book Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Modern Japanese Imperial Women.

Eunyoung Park, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Art History at Ewha Womans University, Seoul. She was formerly Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University and has published on contemporary Korean and Korean American art exploring issues of identity, contemporaneity, and globalization.