W.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacies: Memory, Word and Image

Artists and interdisciplinary scholars have been drawn to the interstices between images, novel, essay, (auto)biography, memorial, and travelogue to explore the natural history of destruction. Sebald has provided a means for artists and scholars to write with images, embrace ambiguity, and turn to today's migrants with empathy and responsibility, as well as to blend academic research, creation, and institutional engagement to account for and enable such necessary work in diverse contexts.

Format: Hardback
Length: 292 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2023
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

When the mind turns to questions of the "natural history of destruction," artists and interdisciplinary scholars are drawn to the interstices between images, novel, essay, (auto)biography, memorial, and travelogue. Artists have been among Sebald's most prolific interpreters, as they are among the more fearless and holistic researchers on questions concerning what it means never to be able to fix an identity, to tell a migrant's story, or to know where a historical trauma ends. Sebald has also given artists and scholars a means to write with images, embrace ambiguity, and turn to today's migrants with empathy and responsibility, as well as to let academic research, creation, and institutional engagement blend into or substantially inform one another in order to account for and enable such necessary work in the most diverse contexts.

Weight: 626g
Dimension: 164 x 242 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789463729758