W.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacies : : Memory, Word and Image / / ed. by Ihab Saloul, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Ilse Rijn, Leonida Kovac.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Annabel, Catherine,; Edwards, Mark,; Elkins, James,; Hayes, Christa-Maria Lerm,; Kovač, Leonida,; Reifenstein, Tilo,; Rijn, Ilse van,; Roban, Sandra Križić,; Rudorfer, Veronika,; Seidl, Anna,; Simpson, Juliet,; Todorović, Jelena,; Van Gelder, Hilde,; Verga, Francesca,
• HerausgeberIn: Kovac, Leonida,; Lerm Hayes, Christa-Maria,; Rijn, Ilse,; Saloul, Ihab,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage and Memory Studies ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of – as W.G. Sebald puts it – the “natural history of destruction”, comparative consideration by artists and interdisciplinary scholars is directed to the interstices between images, novel, essay, (auto)biography, memorial and travelogue. Artists have been among Sebald’s most prolific interpreters – as they are among the more fearless and holistic researchers on questions concerning what it means never to be able to fix an identity, to tell a migrant’s story, or to know where a historical trauma ends. Sebald has - as this book attests - also given artists and scholars a means to write with images, to embrace ambiguity, and to turn to today’s migrants with empathy and responsibility; as well as to let academic research, creation and institutional engagement blend into or substantially inform one another in order to account for and enable such necessary work in the most diverse contexts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- I Sebald’s Writings, History and Voids -- 1 W.G. Sebald’s Cartographic Images: Mapping the Historical Void -- 2 Imaging the Uncanny Memory: War and the Isenheim Altarpiece in 1917–19 -- 3 The Worlds of Eternal Present: The Quest for the Hidden Patterns of Baroque Thought in Sebald’s literature -- 4 Seeing the Void? On Visual Representations of “Arisierungen,” Forced Absences, and Forms of Taking Inventory in the Installation Invent arisiert by Arno Gisinger -- II Memory and Art in and Through Sebald -- 5 Monument and Memory -- 6 In the Labyrinth: Sebald’s (Postwar) French Connections -- 7 Leaning Images: Reading Nasta Rojc and Ana Mušćet -- 8 Working with Images: Documentary Photography in the Oeuvres of Mike Kelley and W.G. Sebald -- 9 Ghostwriting and Artists’ Texts: Raqs Media Collective’s We Are Here, But Is It Now? -- III Writing with Images: Academic Practices and / as Ethical Commitment -- 10 Models for Word and Image: Georges Rodenbach to Christian Bök -- 11 On Writing: Propositions for Art History as Literary Practice -- 12 Memory, Word, and Image in Sebald and Joyce: Towards a Transhistorical Ethics Communicated Through Minor Interventions in the Form of the Printed Book -- 13 Sebald’s Toute la mémoire du monde -- 14 As a Dog Finds a Spear -- List of Contributors -- Index