Disturbing Pasts: Memories, Controversies and Creativity - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 152611545X ISBN 13: 9781526115454

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This collection explores the creative responses of artists to the legacies of war, colonialism, genocide and oppression. Based on a major project of international collaboration supported by the European Science Foundation, it brings together professional art practices, art history and visual culture studies, social anthropology, literary studies, history, museology and cultural policy studies. Case studies are drawn from diverse contexts, including South Africa, Germany, Namibia, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Australia. The results reveal a courageous and carefully examined global picture, with a variety of new approaches to confronting dominant historical narratives and shaping alternative interpretations. -- .

About this title

About the Author:

Leon Wainwright is Reader in Art History at The Open University, UK -- .

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 152611545X
• ISBN 13: 9781526115454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Wainwright Leon