Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781138262256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 204 str.

Peter Muir

Opis

Shimon Attie's 1991-1993 installation in Berlin's Scheunenviertel district is suspended by the palimpsestic associations established between the dead of the past and their ghostly appearance in the present. In Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall, Peter Muir theorizes these images both as a memorial activity and an index or habitation for history, by responding to a series of propositions arising from Walter Benjamin's Thesis "On the Concept of History."

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Memory and the Scheunenviertel site; The space of forgetfulness; The archival apace; Spaces of exception; Allegory as a threshold space; Mediating signs; The tragic drama of Shimon Attie; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Dr Peter Muir is a Research Associate with MIRIAD (the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design): http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/visualculture/locationmemory/ and an Associate Lecturer with the Open University.