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Lynching Photographs
Av Dora Apel, Shawn Michelle Smith
Häftad, 2008
262 kr
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Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many communities, it was a public event, to be …
Imagery of Lynching
Black Men, White Women, and the Mob
Av Dora Apel
Häftad, 2004
526 kr
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Outside of the classroom and scholarly publications, lynching has long been a taboo subject. Nice people, it is felt, do not talk about it, and they certainly do not look at images representing the atrocity.In Imagery of Lynching, Dora Apel contests this adopted stance of ignorance. Through a …
War Culture and the Contest of Images
Av Dora Apel
Häftad, 2012
510 kr
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War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, …
Beautiful Terrible Ruins
Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline
Av Dora Apel
Häftad, 2015
453 kr
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Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere-the paradigmatic city of ruins-and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, …
Calling Memory Into Place
Av Dora Apel
Inbunden, 2020
424 kr
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How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this deeply personal work, acclaimed art historian Dora Apel examines how memorials, photographs, artworks, …
