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Dissonant Archives : Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East /
Archives are often viewed as ordered collections of historical documents that record information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial element in these processes: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, is also concerned with determining...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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I.B. Tauris,
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st. |
| Colección: | Visual culture in the Middle East series ;
2 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Archives are often viewed as ordered collections of historical documents that record information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial element in these processes: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, is also concerned with determining the future. This feature of the archive has gained considerable urgency in modern-day North Africa and the Middle East where it has come to the fore as a site of social, historical, theoretical, and political contestation. Dissonant Archives is the first book to consider the ways in which contemporary artists, in exploring archival contexts and structures, foreground a systemic and perhaps irrevocable crisis in institutional and state-ordained archiving across the region. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857739735 0857739735 |