Figures of History Contributor(s): Rancière, Jacques (Author), Rose, Julie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0745679579 ISBN-13: 9780745679570 Publisher: Polity Press OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies |
Dewey: 791.430 |
LCCN: 2019275004 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.8" W x 7.4" (0.30 lbs) 112 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Ranci re continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What roles does it assign to those who enacted them or those who were the victims of such events? For Ranci re, every image, in what it shows and what it hides, says something about what it is permissible to show and what must be hidden in any given place and time. Indeed the image, in its act of showing and hiding, can reopen debates that the official historical record had supposedly determined once and for all. He argues that representing the past can imprison history, but it can also liberate its true meaning. |