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Nothing Happened : Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide /

"Charlotte Salomon's (1917-43) fantastical autobiography, Life? or Theater?, consists of 769 sequenced gouache paintings, through which the artist imagined the circumstances of the eight suicides in her family, all but one of them women. But Salomon's focus on suicide was not merely a...

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Autor principal: Buerkle, Darcy C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction; Section 1; First Foreclosures and Their Evidence: Trauma's Event; Trauma, Event, Method; Affect, Event, Method; Trauma/Transcendence: Life? or Theater? and Its Public; Section 2; First Sights: On Seeing Suicide before World War I; First Paintings: Charlotte Knarre; Empty Space as Window/Empty Space as Figural Space; Nothing Happened; Charlotte Knarre Throws Herself in the Water; First Things/Next Things; Archive I: Firsts, in a Series; Moehsen on Suicide by Drowning, Marx on Women's Suicide, Wabnitz on Suicide as Critique; Émile Durkheim's Suicide as Event.
  • Helenefriederike Stelzner and Her Analysis of Two Hundred Cases of SuicideOn Student Suicide and "Mourning and Melancholia"; Section 3; Waiting to See: The Visual Rhetoric of Suicide in Weimar Berlin; Franziska I & II; Franziska I: Documenting Nothing, Again; Franziska II: Documenting Nothing, Again, and Then Once More; Archive II: Berlin's New Statistics, Jews, Prevention; Before the Census: Raphael Weichbrodt and Some Others; Berlin's 1925-1926 Census: Jews and Suicide; Preventing Suicide; To the Letter: Notes on Writing Notes/Negotiations of the Grapheme.
  • Striking Reasons: Suicide Records and the Visual Rhetoric of the Strike-OutNoting (Striking) Suicide in Psychoanalysis; Anna O.; Dora; The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman (1920); Section 4; Looking That Does Not End: Final Words; Frau Knarre: "Tonight or Never"; The Witness/Standing Next to and Stories of Origin; Feeling Gaze; P.S.: Postscripts; Final Words; Epilogue; Notes; Index; Illustrations.