Of What One Cannot Speak - Doris Salcedo''s Political Art

Informationen zum Autor Mieke Bal is Academy Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a cofounder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her many books include Loving Yusuf: Conceptual Travels from Present to Past! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Doris Salcedo! a Colombian-born artist! addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. This title leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art! encouraging us to consider each work as a 'theoretical object' that invites certain kinds of considerations about history and grief. Zusammenfassung Doris Salcedo! a Colombian-born artist! addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. This title leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art! encouraging us to consider each work as a 'theoretical object' that invites certain kinds of considerations about history and grief.

Product details

• Authors: Mieke Bal
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2011
• EAN: 9780226035789
• ISBN: 978-0-226-03578-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), sculpture, History of Art, Installation art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960