Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

Name: Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Materializing Memory in Art and Popular CultureAuthor(s): Laszlo Muntean, Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138203235, 978-1138203235\nSynopsis\nMemory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mmoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture. The books underlying premise is twofold: on the one hand, memory is performed, mediated, and stored through the material world that surrounds us; on the other hand, inanimate objects and things also have agency on their own, which a.