Introduction: Beyond Hiroshima: the Return of the Repressed: Wartime Memory, Performativity and the Documentary in Contemporary Japanese Photography and Video Art

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Abstract

Beyond Hiroshima: The Return of the Repressed Wartime memory, Performativity and the Documentary in Contemporary Japanese Photography and Video-art is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Genia Schreiber Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Apr-Aug 2015, comemoraating the 70th anniversary of the Asia-Pacific War. The collection contains six essays by leading scholars in the field, including Ayelet Zohar, Narita Ryuichi, Akiko Takenaka, Julia Adeney Thomas, Lena Fritsch and Justin Jesty. This is an outstanding and unique publication, with discussions concerning issues of war memory in performance and video art, the complex history of the Asia-Pacific War and its remembrance, war and trauma, war and photography.
Translated title of the contributionמעבר להירושימה: שובו של המודחק: זיכרון המלחמה, פרפורמטיביות, ותיעוד בצילום ווידאו-ארט יפאני עכשווי
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBeyond Hiroshima: the return of the repressed
Subtitle of host publicationWartime memory, performativity and the documentary in contemporary Japanese photography and video art
EditorsAyelet Zohar
Place of PublicationTel Aviv, Israel
PublisherThe Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Michel Kikoïne Foundation, Tel Aviv University, [2015
Pages11-22
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9789657160411, 9657160413
StatePublished - 2015

Keywords

  • Photography
  • Artistic -- Japan -- Exhibitions
  • Video art
  • אמנות וידיאו -- יפן -- תערוכות
  • فنّ الفيديو -- اليابان -- مَعارض
  • צילום אמנותי
  • التصوير الفوتوغرافيّ، فنّيّ
  • Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment
  • 1945 -- Personal narratives -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions -- History -- Bombardment
  • 1945 -- Personal narratives -- In art -- Exhibitions
  • הירושימה (יפן) -- היסטוריה -- הפצצה
  • 1945 -- סיפורים אישיים -- באמנות -- תערוכות -- היסטוריה -- הפצצה
  • 1945 -- סיפורים אישיים -- חומר מאויר -- תערוכות
  • Japanese Photography

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