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Of what one cannot speak : Doris Salcedo's political art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bal, Mieke, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Salcedo, Doris, > 1958- > Criticism and interpretation.
Sculpture > Colombia > 20th century.
Sculpture > 20th century > Political aspects > Colombia.
Art > Political aspects.
Salcedo, Doris, > 1958-
Table of Contents:
  • Metaphoring: singularity in negative space
  • Metaphor and negative space
  • Metaphoring negativity
  • The insistence of metaphor
  • The act of metaphoring
  • Metaphor as skin
  • Atrabiliarios as political object
  • The politics of anthropomorphism
  • The anthropomorphic imagination
  • Locating violence
  • House without spouse
  • Theaters of gender
  • On the move
  • Timing
  • Negations of place
  • No more bones
  • Foreshortening
  • Foreshortening time
  • The agency of space: installation
  • Listening to time in space
  • Abduction into pain
  • History and the event in the present
  • New space
  • Acts of memory
  • An act in search of an agent
  • Perception and memory for witnessing
  • Acting memory
  • Meanwhile: herenow
  • Active space
  • Shibboleth of past and present
  • Political art takes place.