Seeing witness visuality and the ethics of testimony / Jane Blocker.

Author/creator Blocker, Jane
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Descriptionxxiii, 153 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.
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LCCN 2008029070
ISBN9780816654765 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN081665476X (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816654772 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0816654778 (pb : alk. paper)

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