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Author Blocker, Jane.

Title Seeing witness [electronic resource] : visuality and the ethics of testimony / Jane Blocker.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

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Description xxiii, 153 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.
Contents A promise always disappointing: the ethics of history in Ulay and Abramovic'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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Subjectivity in art.
Reality in art.
Visual communication in art.
Art, Modern -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780816654765 (hc : alk. paper)
081665476X (hc : alk. paper)
9780816654772 (pb : alk. paper)
0816654778 (pb : alk. paper)

 
    
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