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Article: The afterlife of lynching: exhibitions and the re-composition of human suffering.('Witness: Photographs of Lynchings from the Collection of Frames Allen and John Littlefield' and 'Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America')(Critical essay)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
- Author:
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THE IDEAS I WILL PRESENT HERE ADDRESS THE ETHICS AND AESTHETICS OF representation and reception. When museums and other exhibition venues arrange, contextualize, and gloss the extant evidence of inhuman brutality and human suffering, audience members ate called upon to be both witnesses after the fact and parties responsible for the present and the future. Museum professionals and museum visitors are thus accountable for the immediate and long-term consequences of their contact with volatile representations. Under these circumstances urgent questions arise: What happens to the "facts" pertaining to victims and perpetrators when they ate subjected to the aegis and decorum ...
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... ... the safe and speedy return of this people to their homes with their political and human rights respected." On returning to New York, Mr. Annan wrote the following first-person account of his visit, which was distributed through the Los Angeles Times ...
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