Erasure

The Spectre of Cultural Memory

Brad Buckley editor John Conomos editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Libri Publishing

Published:31st May '15

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Erasure cover

Erasure: The Spectre of Cultural Memory explores key issues around the increasing aesthetic and cultural erasure occurring in our society. It moves from the seminal act of the American Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg erasing a drawing by the painter Willem de Kooning in 1953, perhaps signalling that an echo or trace would be all that is valued in the future, to the impact that the new technologies – such as Twitter, Facebook, email, smartphones, snapchat and Instagram – are having on family, class, sex, time, speed and space.

This erasure is driven by new media technology, globalisation, and new structures of education, work, home and consumption. Erasure: The Spectre of Cultural Memory is the first book that brings together artists, curators, scholars and thinkers who are, in their respective contexts, at the forefront of these compelling questions.

“So much information kept, so much forgotten, so much downloaded, so much sent to trash, will this be the lost century? . . . This much anticipated book brings together leading thinkers, artists and scholars from across a wide spectrum of thought to present this urgent matter to us. It is disturbing and optimistic at the same time, reminding us of the power of art and culture to be the clarion call and to empower us to advance but to understand better how to treat the past, in the present, in ways that prepares for the future.” — Professor Su Baker, director, Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne

ISBN: 9781909818620

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220 pages