"One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo... " --Village Voice Literary Supplement..". his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms." --Amer[...]
In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture is that novelty is even more associated with [...]
Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York - three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. B[...]
"Other Cities, Other Worlds" brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the way that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own [...]
This is a fascinating comparative study of two contemporary artist who both utilised the traditional art of shadow play in their work. This exquisite comparative study of contemporary artists William Kentridge and Nalini Malani focuses on their use of the shadow play as a medium of memory. Independe[...]