About this Book

Sumario: Trauma as representation : a meditation on Manet and Johns / Isabelle Wallace -- Walker Evans’s depression and the trauma of photography / Eric Rosenberg -- Canova's Penitent Magdalene : on trauma's prehistory / Erika Naginski -- When memory speaks : a monument bears witness / Lisa Saltzman -- Car crash, 1960 / Judith F. Rodenbeck -- "Normal ills" : on embodiment, victimization, and the origins of feminist art / Anna C. Chave -- The "rememory" of slavery : Kara Walker's The end of Uncle Tom and the grand allegorical tableau of Eva in heaven / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw -- Literature and the enactment of memory : (Duras, Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour) / Cathy Caruth -- The revivifying artist : Boltanski's efforts to close the gap / Ernst van Alphen -- The post-traumatic turn and the art of Walid Ra'ad and Krzysztof Wodiczko : from theory to trope to beyond / Mark Jarzombek.