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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A painting in a relatively conventional narrative form by the South African artist
Motseokae Klas Thibeletsa seems to me to exemplify the attempt to depict the
experience of memories of abuse as poised at a point of entry into common
language ...
A painting in a relatively conventional narrative form by the South African artist
Motseokae Klas Thibeletsa seems to me to exemplify the attempt to depict the
experience of memories of abuse as poised at a point of entry into common
language ...
Page 118
The witnesses ' voices enter his consciousness simply as problems that threaten
his security and way of life , giving the lie to the language of authority that he
persists in speaking . Distinct languages are spoken here — the various African ...
The witnesses ' voices enter his consciousness simply as problems that threaten
his security and way of life , giving the lie to the language of authority that he
persists in speaking . Distinct languages are spoken here — the various African ...
Page 163
The Force of Trauma 1 . Veena Das , “ Language and Body : Transactions in the
Construction of Pain , " in Social Suffering , ed . Arthur Kleinman , Veena Das ,
and Margaret Lock ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1997 ) , 86 – 87 . 2
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The Force of Trauma 1 . Veena Das , “ Language and Body : Transactions in the
Construction of Pain , " in Social Suffering , ed . Arthur Kleinman , Veena Das ,
and Margaret Lock ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1997 ) , 86 – 87 . 2
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Contents
Trauma Affect and | 22 |
The Force of Trauma | 52 |
Journeys into Place | 87 |
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| Title | Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art Volume 440 of Cultural memory in the present, ISSN 2578-8361 |
| Author | Jill Bennett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0804750742, 9780804750745 |
| Length | 188 pages |
| Subjects | › Art / Conceptual |
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