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Author:   Elena Stylianou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus) ,  Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9780367193096

ISBN 10:   0367193094
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   07 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Approaches to Displaying Death in Museums: An Introduction Elena Stylianou & Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert PART I: EVIDENCING THE PAST Negotiating Death at the Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum J. M. Hammond Honoring the dead: photography and the display of the Jewish Necropolis at the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki Iro Katsaridou “Death from the skies.” Photographs in museums of the aerial bombing of civilians during World War Two Sheila Watson Saints, Martyrs and Heroes: “Sacred Displays” or the Iconography of Death in Cypriot Museums Yiannis Toumazis PART II: THE SPECTABLE OF DEATH The War/Photography Exhibition and the Display of Death Jean Kempf “Persons Unknown”: Lynching Photographs in the Museum RM Wolff Human Skulls and Photographs of Dead Bandits: the Problems of Presenting a Nineteenth Century Museum to Twenty-First-Century-Audiences Silvano Montaldo and Eleanor Chiari Our First Murder: Exhibiting Evidence outside the Police Archive Stella Pekiaridi PART III: EMPAPHY AND RESTORING ANONYMITY A Gallery of Martyrs – The Martyr in the Gallery: Public Display and the Artistic Appropriation of Martyr Images in the Middle East Verena Straub What Will You Remember When I’m Gone? Funerary Photography in the Gallery’s Public / Private Space Rosanne Altstatt Remediating Death at Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum Rachel Perry Photography and the Museum: visiting the sight of Death Pam Meecham PART IV: MUSEUMS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE Double Exposure: Absence and Evidence in Ken Gonzales-Day’s Erased Lynching Reilley Bishop-Stall On May 1, 2011 (Alfredo Jaar, 2011) – Expanding the Frame of the Original Photograph Mafalda Dâmaso Photography as a form of taxidermy: Zoe Leonard’s Preserved Head of a Bearded Woman, Musée Orfila Chelsea Nichols

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In essence, the images of death in a museum context question the communicative capacity and constraints of photography and the role of museums in elucidating the human condition. This book will likely stimulate some new thinking about death and its multi-layered meanings that define who we are. - Vivian Ting Wing Yan, The Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong

"""In essence, the images of death in a museum context question the communicative capacity and constraints of photography and the role of museums in elucidating the human condition. This book will likely stimulate some new thinking about death and its multi-layered meanings that define who we are."" – Vivian Ting Wing Yan, The Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong"

Author Information

Elena Stylianou is Assistant Professor in Art History and Theory at European University Cyprus and the founder and coordinator of its Cultural Studies and Contemporary Arts Lab. She has taught in well-known museums in New York, such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Museum of the City of New York and has been involved in various curatorial projects. She has received several fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship (USA) and an Art Table Museum Fellowship (USA). Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is Assistant Professor at the School of Fine and Applied Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology and the founder and coordinator of its Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab. Her previous books include The Political Museum (2016), Museums and Visitor Photography (2016) and Photography and Cyprus (2014). She has received several scholarships and awards, including a Smithsonian Fellowship in Museum Practice (USA) and a Fulbright Fellowship (USA).

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