Beclouded Visions

Beclouded VisionsThe trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrates the limits of dominant visual models, such as photography, for providing adequate historical memory. The author argues that collective traumas suggest the need for a prolonged gaze, such as can be provided by expressive art. Beclouded Visions is an exploration of the many and varied ways in which atrocity has shaped the requirements of art, vision, and collective memory in the twentieth century. The

Documents how even progressive foundations serve to reinforce the political status quo

These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947

Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings

As this chapter shows

is in peril

and cultural gadfly

this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance

Davis Smith-Brecheisen reveals how efforts to refuse or appeal to the reader revised and extended the modernist artwork's pursuit of autonomy

immigrants abandoned some Sicilian ideals

Recognizing that virtually every gripping regional ghost drama springs from kernels of fact

he discovers a broad cast of friends

the impact of institutional and national policies