Let Them Haunt Us: How Contemporary Aesthetics Challenge Trauma as the Unrepresentable

By Werner Anna-Lena and 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 and 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. Anna-Lena Werner 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3837650464
• ISBN13: 9783837650464
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"