Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy

by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Book Overview

This is a volume about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It consists of a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography. The essays focus mainly on representations of violence and death in events in recent Israeli history, including the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian Intifada, and on the visual presence of traumatic events in Israeli culture throughout the 20th century. They show how images of these events both shape and aestheticize the viewer's experience of death.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262011824
• ISBN13: 9780262011822
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"