Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy

by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

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This is a volume about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It consists of a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography. The essays focus mainly on representations of violence and death in events in recent Israeli history, including the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian Intifada, and on the visual presence of traumatic events in Israeli culture throughout the 20th century...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262011824

ISBN13:9780262011822

Release Date:June 2001

Publisher:MIT Press (MA)

Length:303 Pages

Weight:0.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"

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Art Art History Arts, Music & Photography Death Decorative Arts & Design Essays & Correspondence History & Criticism Humanities Letters & Correspondence Literature Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks Themes

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