Forgetting Lot's Wife : : On Destructive Spectatorship /

Forgetting Lot's Wife : : On Destructive Spectatorship / / Martin Harries.

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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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Harries, Martin,
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

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