Learning how to fall
Subtitle: art and culture after September 11
By: T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781138796881; 9781138796898
Subjects: Arts and history; History; History, Modern, in art; Truth (Aesthetics); Arts and society
Description: "Beginning with Richard Drew's controversial photograph of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, Learning How to Fall investigates the changing relationship between world events and their subsequent documentation, asking: does the mediatization of the event overwhelm the fact of the event itself? How does the mode by which information is disseminated alter the way in which we perceive such information? How does this impact upon our memory of an event? T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko posits contemporary art and performance not only as stylized re-envisioning of daily life, but inversely, as a viable means by which one might experience and process real-world political and social events."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the economy of the event; title: If not falling then flying: Richard Drew's Falling man and the politics of witnessing; title: The untruth of style: from Abramovic to Bradshaw and back again; title: Not yet finished, never yet begun: Aliza Shvarts, the Girl from West Virginia, and the consequence of doubt; title: Speaking truth to stupid: Aaron Sorkin's Episode "5/1" and the reassignment of truth; title: How time flies: a chronometry of The fall; title: Afterword afterword, after Phelan: notes on love, for my students.