Let Them Haunt Us : : How Contemporary Aesthetics Challenge Trauma as the Unrepresentable / / Anna-Lena Werner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
• Funder: Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft der Freunde, Förderer und Ehemaligen der Freien Universität Berlin e.V.
• VerfasserIn: Werner, Anna-Lena,
• Author: Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft der Freunde, Förderer und Ehemaligen der Freien Universität Berlin e.V.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Image ; 168
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; A History of Trauma --; Challenging Trauma as the Unrepresentable --; Trauma Narratives --; Trauma Spaces --; Trauma – Curational Perspectives --; Conclusion and Outlook --; Bibliography --; List of Figures
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839450468; 9783110738230; 9783110696295; 9783110704679; 9783110704785; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110696301; 9783111025124; 9783110689617
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839450468?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anna-Lena Werner.

»Let Them Haunt Us« analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically challenges its canonical status as »unrepresentable«. Focusing on case studies in the aesthetic practices of Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Omer Fast, Forensic Architecture, and Paul McCarthy this book proposes to redefine trauma as a productive framework to exploring individual, collective, and cultural conflicts addressed in current artistic and curatorial practices. It considers the aesthetic realm as a potential forum that provides methods of understanding the humanitarian consequences of violence and warfare, and to reveal the effects of trauma on visual culture, collective memory, and politics.