Curating Difficult Knowledge

Curating Difficult Knowledge
Author: E. Lehrer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0230319556


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This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics, the contributors explore the challenges of bearing witness to past conflicts.


Curating Difficult Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: E. Lehrer
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-04 - Publisher: Springer

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This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-confli
A Pedagogy of Witnessing
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Roger I. Simon
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-18 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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This outstanding comparative study on the curating of "difficult knowledge" focuses on two museum exhibitions that presented the same lynching photographs. Thro
Jewish Poland Revisited
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Erica T. Lehrer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-19 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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National Jewish Book Award Finalist: “A fresh and delightful portrait of Jewish renewal in Poland . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice Since the end of Comm
Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Margaret Tali
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-22 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsc
Conflicted Memory
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Cynthia E. Milton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

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Reveals and analyzes how Peru's military elite have engaged in a cultural campaign--via memoirs, novels, films, museums--to shift public memory and debate about