Making present the absent other: Anamnesis and the work of Kiefer, Boltanski, Cruise and Coetzee.
Redelinghüys, Ian Stevens, Ingrid
Redelinghüys, Ian
Stevens, Ingrid
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It is possible that artists, in the making of memorials and monuments, might aid in the process of national healing after a traumatic national era or event. This, it is argued, is more likely to be achieved through the ‘counter-monument’, where a process of anamnesis might occur because of viewer participation, encouraged by certain kinds of contemporary approaches to memorials. Having established motivations for such a process, this article then examines selected examples of post-war German art and post-apartheid South African art, to show that visual representations might have a healing function. It concludes that psychology can learn from art, which can activate the instinct of reflection and act as a psychic mover.
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2010-01-01
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South African Journal of Art History
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Monument, Memorial, Counter-monument, Anamnesis, Kiefer, Boltanski, Cruise, Coetzee