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Author Simon, Roger I., author.

Title A pedagogy of witnessing : curatorial practice and the pursuit of social justice / Roger I. Simon.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education
SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword; Preface; 1. Exhibiting Archival Photographs of Racial Violence as a Pedagogy of Witness; The Curation of Difficult Knowledge; The Problematic Pedagogy of "Bearing Witness"; Pedagogy and Curation; Curatorial Practice and the Pursuit of Social Justice; 2. Without Sanctuary Exhibitions at the Andy Warhol Museum and Chicago Historical Society; The Without Sanctuary Exhibit at the Andy Warhol Museum; The Without Sanctuary Exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society; The Selection and Labeling of the Lynching Photographs Displayed; Differences in Exhibition Design.
3. The Curatorial Work of Exhibiting Archival Photographs of Lynching in AmericaPresenting Images of Racial Violence: The Public Pedagogy of Museum Display; Pedagogical Perspectives from the Andy Warhol Museum Staff; Pedagogical Perspectives from the Chicago Historical Society Staff; Institutional Positioning Within the Racial Formation of the United States; The Without Sanctuary Exhibition and the Racialization of the Andy Warhol Museum; The Without Sanctuary Exhibition and the Racialization of the Chicago Historical Society.
The Practice and the Responsibility of Memory in Exhibitions of Lynching PhotographsPerspectives on Memorialization from the Andy Warhol Museum; Perspectives on Memorialization from the Chicago Historical Society; The Affective Force of Images of Lynching on Museum Staff; The Affective Force of the Images at the Andy Warhol Museum; The Affective Force of the Images at the Chicago Historical Society; A Brief Coda; 4. Public Performance in the Social Space of Museum Comment Books: Without Sanctuary Exhibitions and the Extended Conversation about Race in America.
The Social Space of the Comment Books at the Without Sanctuary ExhibitionsCollecting the Comments; Analyzing the Comments: Level One Themes; Tracking Differences in Visitor Responses; Affective Expression: Explicit Emotions and the Graphic Representation of Feeling; Photography and History: Differences in How Images Speak to Us; What Might be Meant by a "Useable Past"?; Redeeming the Past: Hope, Action, Identity; Images of Racial Violence and Anxious Conversations Regarding Race in America; 5. Curatorial Judgment, the Pedagogical Framing of Exhibitions, and the Relation of Affect and Thought.
Two Exhibitions Addressing the Crimes of the German Armed Forces During World War IIExhibiting Photographs from S-21; Beyond a Pedagogy of Witness; 6. Some Closing Remarks on Curatorial Practice and the Pursuit of Social Justice; Remembrance and the Prospect of Hope; Exhibitions and Various Ways of Linking the Past, Present, and Future; Remembrance Through Identification; Remembrance Through Grief and Shame; Remembrance Through Practices of Inheritance; Some Last Words; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Annotation Explores the curating of "difficult knowledge" through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.
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Language Text in English.
Subject Public history.
Public history.
Social justice -- Psychological aspects.
Social justice -- Psychological aspects.
Social justice.
Museum exhibits -- Social aspects.
Museum exhibits -- Social aspects.
Historiography.
Historiography.
Museum exhibits.
HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
Other Form: Print version: Simon, Roger I. Pedagogy of Witnessing 9781438452692 (DLC) 2014941805 (OCoLC)879583743
ISBN 9781438452715 (electronic book)
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