Memory and Fragility: Art's Resistance to Oblivion (Three Colombian Cases)

Through Colombian art, spirit surpasses a notion of history and memory related to the past in terms of accumulation, conservation, and classification. Art, Hegel insists, opens the gates of remembrance (Erinnerung): it is the event that actively transforms facts into a living past to keep them from...

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Published in:CR (East Lansing, Mich.) Mich.), 2014-04, Vol.14 (1), p.71-98
Main Author: Acosta López, María del Rosario
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abstract art
Art history
Art objects
Artistic representation
Cultural history
Forgiveness
History
History instruction
Memory
Memory trace
Special Section: Writing/Violence/Latin America
Spirituality
Visual arts
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Summary:Through Colombian art, spirit surpasses a notion of history and memory related to the past in terms of accumulation, conservation, and classification. Art, Hegel insists, opens the gates of remembrance (Erinnerung): it is the event that actively transforms facts into a living past to keep them from becoming soulless carcasses.
ISSN:1532-687X
1539-6630
DOI:10.14321/crnewcentrevi.14.1.0071