Art and the performance of memory sounds and gestures of recollection

• Other Authors: Smith, Richard Candida
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2002
• Series: Routledge studies in memory and narrative
• Subjects: Arts; Art and society; Performing arts; Art and history; Memory in art
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• Physical Description: xiv, 290 pages illustration 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780415277969

This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, the book highlights the distinction between enactive and cognitive memory and the implications of this for artists and their publics.