After the Event: New Perspectives on Art History

'The event occurs in time; the aftermath concerns the traces, which are frozen into images, objects, re-presentations. Traditionally, art history accommodates only the aftermath. A different perspective on the visual arts is opened up when scholars insist on exploring the status of the event itself, allowing temporality to remain in place. By focusing on the event, recognition of the traces becomes all the more evident, producing enhanced emphasis on the notion of representation itself. This book opens up debates on art history and theory to a broad range of perspectives, offering fresh approaches to art history and media culture alongside diverse investigations into cross-cultural and non-Western art practices. The essays draw together a wide and regionally diverse range of scholars from numerous areas, including film and documentary studies, philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, media theory and performance studies, as well as art history and theory.' (Excerpt from back cover)

The essays collected in this book were developed from papers initially given at the symposia organized by the Biennale of Sydney 2006. This book is part of the series Rethinking Art's Histories. With some black-and-white illustrations; includes notes on contributors.

Alternative title

Rethinking Art's Histories

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Manchester University Press (Manchester, United Kingdom)

editor

Charles MEREWETHER,

John POTTS

Location code

REF.MEC

Language

English

Keyword

art theory, art history, conference

Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

248

ISBN / ISSN

9780719081736

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction - Charles MEREWETHER, John POTTS

Part I: Rewriting Global Visual Culture

Two Cures: Making Art Visible - Boris GROYS

Land and Sea: 'In the Beginning All the World Was America' - Mitchell DEAN

Migration as Spatial Fantasy - Ackbar ABBAS

Masters of the Gap: Art, Migration and Eido-Kinesis - Paul CARTER

The World Is Not Enough - Rex BUTLER

Part II: New Art Histories: Other Modernities

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Crisis and Convening: Or, What Is It That We Want from Art Conferences? - LEE Wengchoy, 李永財

Part III: Memory, Documentary and the Archival

Archival Futures: On Kawara and the Date from Which All Things Begin, Again - Charles MEREWETHER

Mortal Remains - Geeta KAPUR

Expressivity: The Art of Documentary Practice - Michael RENOV

Documentary in the Age of the Remix - Kathryn MILLARD

Contact Lenses: Cinaesthesia in the Museum - Laleen JAYAMANNE

Part IV: The Event and Re-enactment

The Event and Its Echoes - John POTTS

'The Truth Will Be Known When the Last Witness is Dead': History Not Memory - Peter OSBORNE

'What if Somebody in New Zealand Wants to See It?': Performance Art's Cover Versions - Edward SCHEER

When the Present Comes to Get You - Jane GOODALL

After the Event: New Perspectives on Art History

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