Contemporary Art and Memory

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Images of Recollection and Remembrance

By Joan Gibbons

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Contemporary Art and Memory by Joan Gibbons offers an accessible survey of how memory manifests in contemporary art, from personal recollections shaping an artist's life history to the portrayal of public memory in galleries and museums. The book delves into themes such as art as autobiography, memory as trace, the archive's role, revisionist memory, postmemory, and even the absence of memory through oblivion. Illustrated with works by international artists like Yinka Shonibare MBE, Doris Salcedo, and Tracey Emin, Gibbons situates contemporary practices within historical contexts, enriching our understanding of how the past continues to haunt the present in art.
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This book is ideal for students and enthusiasts of arts and culture seeking to deepen their knowledge of contemporary art's engagement with memory, as well as professionals interested in how art represents and challenges historical narratives.

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Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. Contemporary Art and Memory is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art.

Looking at both personal and public memory, Gibbons explores art as autobiography, the memory as trace, the role of the archive, revisionist memory and postmemory, as well as the absence of memory in oblivion. Grounding her discussion in historical precedents, Gibbons explores the work of a wide range of international artists including Yinka Shonibare MBE, Doris Salcedo, Keith Piper, Jeremy Deller, Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Christian Boltanski, Janet Cardiff, Bill Fontana, Pierre Huyghe, Susan Hiller, Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi and new media artist George Legrady.

Contemporary Art and Memory will be indispensable to all those concerned with the ways in which artists represent and remember the past.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501357930

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 29 integrated b/w

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 208

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Joan Gibbons Non-Fiction

About the Author

Joan Gibbons is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central England in Birmingham and Course Director, MA Contemporary Curatorial Practice. She is the author of 'Art and Advertising' (I.B.Tauris).