Death's Showcase : The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy Paperback / softback
by Ariella (Brown University) Azoulay
Part of the The MIT Press series
Paperback / softback
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An interdisciplinary exploration of the visual presence of death in contemporary culture. This is a book about the public display of death in contemporary culture.
It consists of a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography.
The essays focus mainly on representations of violence and death in events in recent Israeli history, including the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian Intifada, and on the visual presence of traumatic events in Israeli culture throughout the twentieth century.
They show how images of these events both shape and aestheticize the viewer's experience of death. The book offers a new reading of the work of Walter Benjamin, particularly his essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.' Engaging the disciplinary perspectives of philosophy, art history, cultural studies, and photographic theory, the book also draws upon the work of such writers as Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:314 pages, 45 illus.; 45 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:28/02/2003
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- ISBN:9780262511339
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:314 pages, 45 illus.; 45 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:28/02/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780262511339
