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Title Art and the performance of memory : sounds and gestures of recollection / edited by Richard Cándida Smith
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 10
Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 10.
Contents List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: performing the archive / Richard Cándida Smith -- 2. Resonating testimonies from/in the space of death: performing Buenaventura's La maestra / Warren Linds, Alejandra Medellín, and Kadi Purru -- 3. Truth and consequences: Art in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Stephanie Marlin-Curiel -- 4. Precarious boundaries: affect, mise-en-scène, and the senses / Anne Rutherford -- 5. Stratum and resonance: displacement in the work of Renée Green / Elvan Zabunyan -- 6. Cities memory voices collage / David Michalski -- 7. Eros in the studio / Paul J. Karlstrom -- 8. Muscle memory: performing embodied knowledge / Jeff Friedman -- 9. "Hope ... teach, yaknowhati'msayin": freestylin knowledge through Detroit hiphop / Ryan Snyder -- 10. Les gammes: making visible the representative modern man / Richard Cándida Smith -- 11. Composite past: photography and family memories in Brazil (1850-1950) / Ana Maria Mauad -- 12. Memories of mammy / Lizzetta Lefalle-Collins -- 13. Official art, official publics: public sculpture under the Fereral Art-in-Architecture Program since 1972 / Ivy Schroeder -- 14. Private reflections/public matters: public art in the city / Iain Borden and Jane Rendell -- Index
Summary This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. The essays highlight the role of oral history in the documentation of the visual and performing arts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Art and society.
Memory in art.
Art and history.
Arts.
Performing arts.
performing arts (discipline)
ART -- General.
Art and history
Art and society
Arts
Memory in art
Performing arts
Form Electronic book
Author Cándida Smith, Richard
ISBN 0203220234
9780203220238
9780415277969
0415277965