| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Metaphoring: singularity in negative space -- Metaphor and negative space -- Metaphoring negativity -- The insistence of metaphor -- The act of metaphoring -- Metaphor as skin -- Atrabiliarios as political object -- The politics of anthropomorphism -- The anthropomorphic imagination -- Locating violence -- House without spouse -- Theaters of gender -- On the move -- Timing -- Negations of place -- No more bones -- Foreshortening -- Foreshortening time -- The agency of space: installation -- Listening to time in space -- Abduction into pain -- History and the event in the present -- New space -- Acts of memory -- An act in search of an agent -- Perception and memory for witnessing -- Acting memory -- Meanwhile: herenow -- Active space -- Shibboleth of past and present -- Political art takes place. |
| Summary |
Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. In Of What One Cannot Speak, Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a "theoretical object" that invites--and demands--certain kinds o |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Salcedo, Doris, 1958- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Salcedo, Doris, 1958- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Salcedo, Doris, 1958-
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Sculpture -- Colombia -- 20th century.
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Sculpture. |
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Colombia. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Sculpture -- 20th century -- Political aspects -- Colombia.
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Art -- Political aspects.
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political art. |
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ART -- Individual Artists -- Monographs. |
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ART -- Individual Artists -- Artists' Books. |
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Art -- Political aspects. |
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ART -- Individual Artists -- Essays. |
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Sculpture -- Political aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bal, Mieke, 1946- Of what one cannot speak. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010 9780226035789 (DLC) 2010011141 (OCoLC)574955819 |
| ISBN |
9780226035802 (electronic book) |
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0226035808 (electronic book) |
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9780226035789 |
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0226035786 |
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