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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harries, Martin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence.
Suffering.
Recollection (Psychology)
Memory.
Influence (Psychology)
Audiences > Psychology.
ART > History > General.
violence.
Rappel (Psychologie)
Spectateurs > Psychologie.
Souffrance.
Influence (Psychologie)
Spectators > Psychology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Artaud, spectatorship, and catastrophe
  • Hollywood Sodom
  • Anselm Kiefer's Lot's wife : perspective and the place of the spectator
  • Coda: Lot's wife on September 11, 2001; or, Against figuration.

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