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Of what one cannot speak : Doris Salcedo's political art /

Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bal, Mieke, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. In Of What One Cannot Speak, Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a "theoretical object" that invites--and demands--certain kinds o
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780226035802
0226035808