Lisa Saltzman: Making Memory Matter: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art (2006)

16 September 2012, dusan

“In an ancient account of painting’s origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first told, contemporary artists are returning to similar strategies of remembrance, ranging from vaudevillian silhouettes and sepulchral casts to incinerated architectures and ghostly processions.

Exploring these artists’ work, Saltzman demonstrates that their methods have now eclipsed painting and traditional sculpture as preeminent forms of visual representation. She pays particular attention to the groundbreaking art of Krzysztof Wodiczko, who is known for his projections of historical subjects; Kara Walker, who creates powerful silhouetted images of racial violence in American history; and Rachel Whiteread, whose work centers on making casts of empty interior spaces. Each of the artists Saltzman discusses is struggling with the roles that history and memory have come to play in an age when any historical statement is subject to question and doubt. In identifying this new and powerful movement, she provides a framework for understanding the art of our time.”

Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2006
ISBN 0226734080, 9780226734088
133 pages
via Jo Morfin

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PDF (updated on 2020-5-6)


3 Responses to “Lisa Saltzman: Making Memory Matter: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art (2006)”

  1. mrn1 on May 6, 2020 1:18 pm

    Dear Dusan,

    Would an update be possible? Thank you.

  2. dusan on May 6, 2020 3:38 pm

    yes sure

  3. mrn1 on May 7, 2020 12:37 pm

    Many thanks.

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