After-Affects After-Images: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation in the Virtual Feminist Museum

by Griselda Pollock

Book Overview

In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolino, Vera Frenkel, Sarah Kofman and Chantal Akerman to explore trauma and bereavement, fatal illness, Holocaust experience, migration, exile and the encounter with political horror and atrocity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719087988
• ISBN13: 9780719087981
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"