History in Contemporary Art and Culture

Name: History in Contemporary Art and Culture
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Introduction: how to use this book, Part I Shorter Essays, 1. Country Life, 2. Folkert de Jong: serious history and black comedy, 3. Jimmie Durham: spoof museologist, ahistorical dreamer, 4. Progressive Tradition: Ariella Azoulay and Chlo\u00E9 Zhao (post-modernisms and Earthrise), 5. Sigrid Holmwood: history performed as a radical gesture, 6. Tacita Dean: seeing and believing (altermodern and veracity), 7. Robert Smithson and George Kubler: a bus ride in geological time, 8. Charles Baudelaire\u2019s Salon of 1846: modern life and modern art as history, 9. Cao Fei, Yu Hong, Tie Ning, and Jia Zhangke: memory, return, and afterimage, 10. John Akomfrah: hauntological history and costume drama, 11. Pablo Bronstein: critiquing neo-Georgian aesthetics in a lingering postmodern paradigm, 12. Walter Benjamin\u2019s Theses: history\u2019s mental gymnasium, 13. Exploring the Outmoded: a fragment of Benjamin\u2019s Surrealism, 14. Beguiling Memories: memory palaces, wunderkammers, Proust, and L.