Muntean, Laszlo
Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
- Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2017
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies .
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Memory 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-mémoire 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 book's 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 affects practices of memory, as well as forgetting. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138203235_oachapter1.pdf Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138203235_oachapter4.pdf Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138203235_oachapter5.pdf
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ISBN: 9781315472171
Standard No.: 10.4324/9781315472171 doi
Subjects--Topical Terms: Material culture. Memory--Social aspects. Culture matérielle. Anthropology Cultural and media studies material culture (discipline) Material culture Media studies Memory--Social aspects PSYCHOLOGY--Cognitive Psychology. SCIENCE--Cognitive Science. Social and cultural anthropology Society and culture: general Society and Social Sciences Sociology and anthropology The arts: general topics The Arts
Subjects--Index Terms: anthropology archaeology cultural studies heritage material culture media studies memory studies trauma visual culture