Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form : Sighting Memory.

Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form : Sighting Memory.

This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Demo, Anne Teresa
Other Authors: Vivian, Bradford
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Series:Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication.
Subjects:
Memory.
Visual perception.
Visual communication.
Memory (Philosophy)
Material culture.
Mass media.
visual perception.
material culture (discipline)
mass media.
Mass media
Material culture
Memory
Visual communication
Visual perception
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form Sighting Memory; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I :Places and Spaces; 1. Memory Lines: The Plotting of New York's New Military Tract; 2. The Unexpected Encounter: Confronting Holocaust Memory in the Streets of Post-Wall Berlin; 3. "A Disturbance of Memory": Travel, Recollection, and the Experience of Place; 4. Woodland Cemetery: Modernism and Memory; Part II : Monuments and Memorials; 5. Ephemeral Visibility and the Art of Mourning: Eyes Wide Open Traveling Exhibit.
  • 6. Patterns of Ambivalence: The Space between Memory and Form7. Denying Denial: Trauma, Memory, and Automobility at Roadside Car Crash Shrines; 8. Dark Elegy: The Embodiment of Terrorism in the American Memorial Landscape; Part III : Media and Mediums; 9. Memory through the Perpetrator's Lens: Witnessing via Images Taken by Wehrmacht Soldiers and Offi cers on the Eastern Front; 10. Inherited and New Memories; 11. The Diffusion of an Atomic Icon: Nuclear Hegemony and Cultural Memory Loss; 12. Silenced Memories: Forgetting War in Finnish Public Paintings.
  • 13. Making Memories: Tragic Tourism's Visual TracesContributors; Index.

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