Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form: Sighting Memory

by Anne Demo (Editor), Bradford Vivian (Editor)

Overview

This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasingly employed in both grand and modest efforts to preserve the past amid rapid social change. The chapters in this book provide valuable insights concerning not only how memories may be seen (or sighted) in visual form but also how visual forms constitute noteworthy material sites of memory. The collection addresses this central theme with a wealth of interdisciplinary and international approaches, featuring conventional scholarly as well as artistic works from such disciplines as rhetoric and communication, art and art history, architecture, landscape studies, and more, by contributors from around the globe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136633539
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/12/2012
Series:	Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Anne Teresa Demo is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University.

Bradford Vivian is Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University.

Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction, Bradford Vivian and Anne Teresa Demo I: Places and Spaces 1: Memory Lines: The Plotting of New York’s Military Tract, Andrea Hammer 2: The Unexpected Encounter: Confronting Holocaust Memory in the Streets of Post-Wall Berlin, Margaret Ewing 3: "A Disturbance of Memory": Travel, Recollection, and the Experience of Place, Paul Duro 4: Woodland Cemetery: Modernism and Memory, Malcolm Woollen II: Monuments and Memorials 5: Ephemeral Visibility and the Art of Mourning: Eyes Wide Open Traveling Exhibit, Ekaterina V. Haskins 6: Patterns of Ambivalence: The Space between Memory and Form, Kingsley Baird 7: Denying Denial: Trauma, Memory, and Automobility at Roadside Car Crash Shrines, Robert M. Bednar 8: Dark Elegy: The Embodiment of Terrorism in the American Memorial Landscape, Dee Britton III: Media and Mediums 9: Memory through the Perpetrator’s Lens: Witnessing via Images Taken by Wehrmacht Soldiers and Officers on the Eastern Front, Frances Guerin 10: Inherited and New Memories, Ernesto Pujol 11: The Diffusion of an Atomic Icon: Nuclear Hegemony and Cultural Memory Loss, Ned O’Gorman and Kevin Hamilton 12: Silenced Memories: Forgetting War in Finnish Public Paintings, Johanna Ruohonen 13: Making Memories: Tragic Tourism’s Visual Traces, Emily Godbey Contributors Index