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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Juni 2007
Genre:	Architektur, Archäologie, Kunst
ISBN:	9780823227334
EAN-Code:	9780823227334
Verlag:	Fordham University Press
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 0 mm
Gewicht:	415 gr
Seiten:	192
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Inhalt:

Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? In Forgetting Lot's Wife, Martin Harries provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century, and the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history lead back to the story of Lot's wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This story of punishment and transformation becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at disaster might petrify the spectator. Harries traces the aesthetic, theoretical, and ethical consequences of this idea, in detailed studies of the theatrical theory of Antonin Artaud, American films, and paintings by Anselm Kiefer. He closes with an extended meditation on September 11.