Forgetting Lot's Wife : : On Destructive Spectatorship / / Martin Harries.
Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot’s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 22 Black & White and color illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Plates
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One Artaud, Spectatorship, and Catastrophe
- Chapter Two Hollywood Sodom
- Chapter Three Anselm Kiefer’s Lot’s Wife: Perspective and the Place of the Spectator
- Coda Lot’s Wife on September 11, 2001; or, Against Figuration
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index