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Ernst van Alphen is Professor of Literary Studies at Leiden University in The Netherlands. His previous books include Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self (Reaktion, 1992), Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature and Theory (1998), Armando: Shaping Memory (2000) and Art mostra altro in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought (2005). mostra meno

Opere di Ernst van Alphen

Ronald Ophuis (2008) 3 copie
Shame! and Masculinity (2021) 2 copie

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Productive Archiving discusses a variety of problems archival organizations. It mainly focuses on the following three issues with archival organizations that are usually overlooked: first, the question of inclusion in or exclusion from the archive; second, the loss of individuality and specificity in the archive, the danger of homogenization; and third, that archiving may become a form of pigeonholing, boxing specific identities into a confined space. Avoiding the archive because of these problems is not an option, because archival organization is a basic symbolic mode on the basis of which we organize our lives, the past, the present and the future. What this book suggests is that it is best to explore constructive and creative solutions for these problems. Especially artistic archives seem to be able to develop these possible solutions, because they offer speculative, unexpected ways to order, select, and narrate specific information, and bring about new connections and archival organizations.… (altro)
 
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petervanbeveren | Mar 22, 2023 |
Van Alphen, director of communication and education at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, takes three artists: Charlotte Salomon, Christian Boltanski, and Armando, and uses their works to describe the nature of artistic production after Auschwitz. He sees tragedies of narrative technique and historic imagination as cultural artifacts in dealing with human catastrophe and representation, mimesis, and reenactment as three significant methods of describing the indescribable. Salomon is carefully described as an artist of resistance, while French artist Boltanski is presented as an exemplar of archival art. The Dutch writer Armando uses the war as a metaphoric statement, as an index to reality. The last chapter is van Alphen's experience, both uncanny and sublime, of living in the house of a Holocaust victim.… (altro)
 
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antimuzak | May 22, 2007 |

Statistiche

Opere
23
Utenti
118
Popolarità
#167,490
Voto
½ 3.4
Recensioni
2
ISBN
31
Lingue
1

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