After-Affects/After-Images
After-Affects/After-Images Do artists travel away from or towards trauma? Or can aesthetic practices (after-images) bring about transformation of trauma, personal trauma or historical traumas? Is…
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After-Affects/After-Images
Do artists travel away from or towards trauma? Or can aesthetic practices (after-images) bring about transformation of trauma, personal trauma or historical traumas? Is trauma encrypted or inscribed in art?
How do artists themselves process these traces as participants in and sensors for our life-worlds and histories, and how does the viewer, coming belatedly or from elsewhere, encounter works bearing such traces or seeking forms through which to touch and transform them? Can they do this in a way that does not imply cure or resolution of the traces (after-affects) of trauma? These are some of the questions posed by major feminist art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock, in her latest installation of the virtual feminist museum.
In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolino, Vera Frenkel, Sarah Kofman and Chantal Akerman to explore trauma and bereavement, fatal illness, first- and second-generation Holocaust experience, migration, exile and the encounter with political horror and atrocity.Offering a specifically-feminist contribution to trauma studies, and a feminist psychoanalytical contribution to the study of contemporary art, this volume continues the conceptual innovations that have been the hall-mark of Pollock's dedicated exploration of feminist interventions in art's histories.
After-Affects/After-Images
Religious Affects
Ordinary Affects
Forms of the Affects
Demanding Images
Discorrelated Images
Ancient Images
Occult Images
Blithe Images