Art and the Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of Recollection (Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative) - Softcover

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9780415513944: Art and the Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of Recollection (Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative)
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ISBN 10: 0415513944 ISBN 13: 9780415513944
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, the book highlights the distinction between enactive and cognitive memory and the implications of this for artists and their publics.

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About the Author

Richard Cándida Smith is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the Director of the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. He focuses on the modern intellectual and cultural history of the arts. He is the author of Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California (1995) and Mallarmé’s Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience (1999).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415513944
ISBN 13 
9780415513944
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304
Editor
Cándida Smith Richard

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