Making Memory Matter: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art

by Lisa Saltzman

In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first told, contemporary artists are returning to similar strategies of remembrance, ranging from vaudevillian silhouettes and sepulchral casts to incinerated architectures and ghostly processions. Exploring these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226734072
• ISBN13: 9780226734071
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"