Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall
Regular price
€198.40
A01=Peter Muir
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Peter Muir
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=ACXJ
Category=AGA
collective trauma analysis
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Jewish cultural erasure
Language_English
memory loss in Berlin history
PA=Temporarily unavailable
palimpsest memory studies
Price_€100 and above
PS=Active
site-specific installation art
softlaunch
visual urban historiography
Walter Benjamin theory
Product details
- ISBN 9780754669630
- Weight: 596g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics theorises images from Attie's 'The Writing on the Wall 1991-1993' installation as a memorial activity, and as an index or habitation for history. The images, which appeared in Berlin's Scheunenviertel district, are suspended by the palimpsestic associations established between the fixated dead of the past and their ghostly appearance in the present. Part of that palimpsest is a collective cultural knowledge of the impending obliteration of community (both the Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of Berlin) by mass-produced death. Peter Muir analyses Attie's work by responding to a series of propositions arising from Walter Benjamin's Thesis 'On the Concept of History.' Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics's presiding metaphor is that of loss - the central problem that the book addresses is that of forgetting.
Dr Peter Muir is a Research Associate with MIRIAD (the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design): http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/visualculture/locationmemory/ and an Associate Lecturer with the Open University.
