Blocker, Jane.

Seeing witness visuality and the ethics of testimony / [electronic resource] : Jane Blocker. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009. - xxiii, 153 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.

A promise always disappointing: the ethics of history in Ulay and Abramović's The lovers -- Peoples of memory: James Luna and the production of history -- Binding to another's wound: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ross McElwee on weddings -- A cemetery of images: photography and witness in the work of Gilles Peress and Alfredo Jaar -- Machine memory: digital witness in Dumb Type's memorandum -- This being you must create: transgenics, witness, and selfhood in the work of Eduardo Kac and Christine Borland -- The shame of biological being: microbiology and theories of subjectivity in a project by Ann Hamilton and Ben Rubin.


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Subjectivity in art.
Reality in art.
Visual communication in art.
Art, Modern--21st century.


Electronic books.

N8251.S55 / B55 2009eb