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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Heritage and Memory Studies ; 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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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