Text and Image: Art and the Performance of Memory

Text and Image expands upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, and explores how ideas move across and between expressive forms. The international contributions draw from art and architectural history, film, theater, performance studies, and social and cultural history to identify and dissect the role that the visual and performing arts can play in the experience and understanding of the past. Blending theory and case study, the authors cover subjects such as the response of artists to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission; violence in Columbia and Mexico and the Balkan Wars; the circuit of sexual desire in contemporary art and photography; and sites of collective and personal memory, including the Internet, the urban landscape, family photographs, and hip hop.