W.G. Sebald and the modern art of memory

Stewart Martin ~ RP 132 (Jul/Aug 2005) ~ Article

W.G. Sebald and the modern art of memory Stewart martin been repressed within cultural consciousness, but with what has been repressed by the dominant scenes and institutions of memory, with what the memory of the repressed itself represses. This is controversial but also timely, as the recent commemorations of the bombing of Dresden indicate. It […]

Notes on the photographic image

Dossier: Undoing the aesthetic image

Jacques Rancière ~ RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009), pp. 8–15 ~ Article

Notes on the photographic image Jacques rancière In the relation between art and image, photography has played a symptomatic and often paradoxical role. Baudelaire made of it the sinister instrument of the triumph of technical reproduction over artistic imagination. And yet we also know of the long struggle of photographers (pictorialistes) to affirm that photography […]