Seeing witness
visuality and the ethics of testimony
Blocker, Jane.
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Electronic books.
mnu
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Press
c2009
2009
monographic
eng
xxiii, 153 p. : ill.
A promise always disappointing: the ethics of history in Ulay and Abramovi�c's The lovers -- Peoples of memory: James Luna and the production of history -- Binding to another's wound: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ross McElwee on weddings -- A cemetery of images: photography and witness in the work of Gilles Peress and Alfredo Jaar -- Machine memory: digital witness in Dumb Type's memorandum -- This being you must create: transgenics, witness, and selfhood in the work of Eduardo Kac and Christine Borland -- The shame of biological being: microbiology and theories of subjectivity in a project by Ann Hamilton and Ben Rubin.
Jane Blocker.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Subjectivity in art
Reality in art
Visual communication in art
Art, Modern
21st century
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