Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary ArtThis book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the "affective" quality of art contributes to a new understanding of the experience of trauma and loss. By extending the concept of empathy, it also demonstrates how we might, through art, make connections with people in different parts of the world whose experiences differ from our own. The book makes a distinct contribution to trauma studies, which has tended to concentrate on literary forms of expression. It also offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the operations of art, drawing on philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, but setting this within a postcolonial framework. Empathic Vision will appeal to anyone interested in the role of culture in post-September 11 global politics. |
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Page 46
... death , until one day he comes upon his wife crying alone in their home . Catching sight of his wedding band in her hands , he understands for the first time that she is mourning his death . It is the recognition of her act of mourning ...
... death , until one day he comes upon his wife crying alone in their home . Catching sight of his wedding band in her hands , he understands for the first time that she is mourning his death . It is the recognition of her act of mourning ...
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... Death is effectively “ lived " by its primary subjects only when they experience their own deaths as lived by others ... death , we are presented , not with the passage of a subject from traumatization into the realm of language or ...
... Death is effectively “ lived " by its primary subjects only when they experience their own deaths as lived by others ... death , we are presented , not with the passage of a subject from traumatization into the realm of language or ...
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... death . As such , the fab- rics in the glass - windowed chest of Untitled do not simply read as literal relics ; they suggest the way in which a sensation ( of pain or loss ) attaches itself to objects as to bodies . It is this emphasis ...
... death . As such , the fab- rics in the glass - windowed chest of Untitled do not simply read as literal relics ; they suggest the way in which a sensation ( of pain or loss ) attaches itself to objects as to bodies . It is this emphasis ...
Contents
Trauma Affect and Art | 22 |
The Force of Trauma | 46 |
Journeys into Place | 70 |
Copyright | |
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