Memory Documents Of Contemporary Art
Synopsis
This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories, the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of 'haunting' and the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association, repetition and reappearance, as well as forms of 'active' forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1940s onward, ranging from re-performances such as Marina Abramovic’s Seven Easy Pieces (embodied resurrections of decades-removed performance pieces by her contemporaries) to the inanimate trace of 'memory' Robert Morris assigns to his free-form felt pieces, which “forget” in their present configurations their previous slides and falls.Book details
- Series:
- Documents Of Contemporary Art Ser. (PDF)
- Author:
- Ian Farr
- ISBN:
- 9780854882045
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780854882045
- Publisher:
- Whitechapel Gallery
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2020-05-07
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Copyright by:
- Whitechapel Gallery and the authors
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Art and Architecture, History, Nonfiction