Appropriations of Literary Modernism in Media Art: Cultural Memory and the Dynamics of Estrangement

Jordis Lau

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Appropriations of Literary Modernism in Media Art

Cultural Memory and the Dynamics of Estrangement

Jordis Lau

Volume 33 in the series Media and Cultural Memory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729900

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By analyzing appropriations of literary modernism in video, experimental film, and installation art, this study investigates works of media art as agents of cultural memory. While research recognizes film and literature as media of memory, it often overlooks media art. Adaptation studies, art history, and hermeneutics help understand ‘appropriation’ in art in terms of a dialog between an artwork, a text, and their contexts. The Russian Formalist notion of estrangement, together with new concepts from literary, film, and media studies, offers a new perspective on ‘appropriation’ that illuminates the sensuous dimension of cultural memory . Media artworks make memory palpable: they address the collective body memory of their viewers, prompting them to reflect on the past and embody new ways of remembering. Five contextual close-readings analyze artworks by Janis Crystal Lipzin, William Kentridge, Mark Aerial Waller, Paweł Wojtasik, and Tom Kalin. They appropriate modernist texts by Gertrude Stein, Italo Svevo, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guillaume Apollinaire, Virginia Woolf, and Robert Musil. This book will be of value to readers interested in cultural memory, sensory studies, literary modernism, adaptation studies, and art history.

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Jordis Lau, Hamburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Appropriation, Estrangement, Memories: Theoretical Configurations 2.1 The Strangeness of Appropriation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3 Actualizing Modernism: Case Studies 3.1 Making America Strange Again Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
4 Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and scholars of literary studies, adaptation studies, art history, media studies, cultural memory studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 239
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 16
- Coloured Illustrations: 13
Keywords: Sensuous memory; literary modernism; media art; estrangement

eBook

Published: December 6, 2021
ISBN: 9783110729900

Hardcover

Published: December 6, 2021
ISBN: 9783110720884