W.G. Sebald's artistic legacies : memory, word and image /

When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of - as W.G. Sebald puts it - the "natural history of destruction", comparative consideration by artists and interdisciplinary scholars is directed to the interstices between images, novel, essay, (auto)biography, memorial and...

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Other Authors: Kovač, Leonida, 1962- (Editor), Lerm-Hayes, Christa-Maria (Editor), Rijn, Ilse van (Editor), Saloul, Ihab (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]
Series:Heritage and memory studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Leonida Kovač
  • I. Sebald's Writings, History and Voids
  • 1. W.G. Sebald's Cartographic Images
  • Mapping the Historical Void
  • Anna Seidl
  • 2. Imaging the Uncanny Memory
  • War and the Isenheim Altarpiece in 1917-19
  • Juliet Simpson
  • 3. The Worlds of Eternal Present
  • The Quest for the Hidden Patterns of Baroque Thought in Sebald's literature
  • Jelena Todorović
  • 4. Seeing the Void?
  • On Visual Representations of "Arisierungen," Forced Absences, and Forms of Taking Inventory in the Installation Invent arisiert by Arno Gisinger
  • Veronika Rudorfer
  • II. Memory and Art in and Through Sebald
  • 5. Monument and Memory
  • Mark Edwards
  • 6. In the Labyrinth
  • Sebald's (Postwar) French Connections
  • Catherine Annabel
  • 7. Leaning Images
  • Reading Nasta Rojc and Ana Mušćet
  • Sandra Križić Roban
  • 8. Working with Images
  • Documentary Photography in the Oeuvres of Mike Kelley and W.G. Sebald
  • Francesca Verga
  • 9. Ghostwriting and Artists' Texts
  • Raqs Media Collective's We Are Here, But Is It Now?
  • Ilse van Rijn
  • III. Writing with Images: Academic Practices and / as Ethical Commitment
  • 10. Models for Word and Image
  • Georges Rodenbach to Christian Bök
  • James Elkins
  • 11. On Writing
  • Propositions for Art History as Literary Practice
  • Tilo Reifenstein
  • 12. Memory, Word, and Image in Sebald and Joyce
  • Towards a Transhistorical Ethics Communicated Through Minor Interventions in the Form of the Printed Book
  • Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
  • 13. Sebald's Toute la mémoire du monde
  • Leonida Kovač
  • 14. As a Dog Finds a Spear
  • Hilde Van Gelder
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • List of Figures
  • Figure 1 Diagram, W.G. Sebald. Austerlitz. New York: Modern Library, 2001, p. 31
  • Figure 2 Map, W.G. Sebald, W.G. The Rings of Saturn. New York: New Directions, 1999, p. 148
  • Figure 3 Arno Gisinger, Invent arisiert, 2000
  • Figure 4 Arno Gisinger, Ohne Titel / Untitled, from the series Invent arisiert, 2000, Lambdaprint on aluminum, 25 x 20 cm
  • Figure 5 Arno Gisinger, Ohne Titel / Untitled, from the series Invent arisiert, 2000, Lambdaprint on aluminum, 25 x 20 cm
  • Figure 6 Arno Gisinger, Ohne Titel / Untitled, from the series Invent arisiert, 2000, Lambdaprint on aluminum, 25 x 20 cm
  • Figure 7 Site of former Seething airfield
  • Figure 8 Seething Airfield
  • Figure 9 Recovered War Memorial, Great Yarmouth, 2002
  • Figure 10 No. II, 2014
  • Figure 11 Monument, installation view, SCVA, Norwich 2014
  • Figure 12 Ana Mušćet, from the series I Fighter (2018)
  • Figure 13 Nasta Rojc, Alexandrina Onslow, private photo album Bajna bašta (Bajina bašta)
  • Figure 14 From the private photo album belonging to Nasta Rojc
  • Figure 15 Nasta Rojc, unpublished autobiography Svjetlo, sjene, mrak [Light, Shadows, Darkness], 1918-19. Ana Mušćet, from the series, I Fighter, 2018