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Limits of the Visible - Representing the Great Hunger (Paperback)
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Limits of the Visible - Representing the Great Hunger (Paperback)
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List price R298
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Discovery Miles 2 700
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Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes
Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and
researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of
the Famine in Ireland from 1845 - 1852 - the worst demographic
catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are
interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in
Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history,
art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political
economy, literature and music. This publications initiative is
devised to augment the Museum experience, and is part of the
Museum's commitment to making its collection accessible to
audiences of all ages and levels of educational interest. The
booklets are produced to the highest level, beautifully illustrated
with works from the Museum and related collections. It ensures that
audiences have access to the latest scholarship as it pertains to
both the historical and contemporary dimensions of the
collection.The absence of photographs of the Irish Famine has been
attributed to the shortcomings of a medium then it its infancy, but
it may also be due to certain limitations in the visible itself.
Susan Sontag argued that images can evoke sentimental responses but
cannot address wider political questions of obligation and justice.
Luke Gibbons revisits representations of the Famine, particularly
those in Ireland's Great Hunger Museum to argue that images can not
only give visual pleasure but demand ethical interventions on the
part of spectators. This fusing of sympathy and affective response
with the right of redress is conveyed by a 'judicious obscurity,' a
determination not to show all, which places an obligation on the
spectator to complete what is beyond representation, or what is
left to the imagination.
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