Forgetting Lot's Wife : On Destructive Spectatorship /
Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot's Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t List of Figures -- |t List of Plates -- |t Preface -- |t Introduction -- |t Chapter One Artaud, Spectatorship, and Catastrophe -- |t Chapter Two Hollywood Sodom -- |t Chapter Three Anselm Kiefer's Lot's Wife: Perspective and the Place of the Spectator -- |t Coda Lot's Wife on September 11, 2001; or, Against Figuration -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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520 | |a Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot's Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lot's wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at disaster might petrify the spectator. Although rarely articulated directly,this idea remains powerful in our culture. This book traces some of its aesthetic, theoretical, and ethical consequences. Harries traces the figure of Lot's wife across media. In extended engagements with examples from twentieth-century theater, film, and painting, he focuses on the theatrical theory of Antonin Artaud, a series of American films, and paintings by Anselm Kiefer. These examples all return to the story of Lot's wife as a way to think about modern predicaments of the spectator. On the one hand, the sometimes veiled figure of Lot's wife allows these artists to picture the desire to destroy the spectator; on the other, she stands as a sign of the potential danger to the spectator. These works, that is, enact critiques of the very desire that inspires them.The book closes with an extended meditation on September 11, criticizing the notion that we should have been destroyed by witnessing the events of that day. | ||
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546 | |a In English. | ||
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650 | 0 | |a Influence (Psychology). | |
650 | 0 | |a Memory. | |
650 | 0 | |a Recollection (Psychology). | |
650 | 0 | |a Spectators |x Psychology. | |
650 | 0 | |a Suffering. | |
650 | 0 | |a Violence. | |
650 | 4 | |a Cinema & Media Studies. | |
650 | 4 | |a Literary Studies. | |
650 | 4 | |a Philosophy & Theory. | |
650 | 7 | |a PERFORMING ARTS / General. |2 bisacsh | |
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