Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South

by Andreas Huyssen

Book Overview

Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror, and civil war. The book focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic, including William Kentridge, Vivan Sundaram, Doris Salcedo, Nalini Malani, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848224222
• ISBN13: 9781848224223
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 184 Pages