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Taryn Simon : an occupation of loss
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ISBN: 9783775743198 3775743197 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin Hatje Cantz

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In her monograph, 'An Occupation of Loss', artist Taryn Simon creates a detailed record of her years researching professional mourning, which culminated in a seminal performance at the Park Avenue Armory in 2016. During the installation, professional mourners from around the world simultaneously broadcast their lamentations within a monumental sculptural setting, enacting rituals of grief. The installation combined performance, sound, and architecture to consider the anatomy of grief and the intricate systems we use to manage fate and uncertainty. The book leads the reader through the complicated visa application process for the mourners invited to enter the United States, revealing the underlying structures governing global exchange, the movement of bodies, and the hierarchies of art and culture.


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Lost Bodies : Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death
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ISBN: 1501730002 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."-from the IntroductionAmerican popular culture conducts a passionate love affair with the healthy, fit, preferably beautiful body, and in recent years theories of embodiment have assumed importance in various scholarly disciplines. But what of the dying or dead body? Why do we avert our gaze, speak of it only as absence? This thoughtful and beautifully written book-illustrated with photographs by Shellburne Thurber and other remarkable images-finds a place for the dying and lost body in the material, intellectual, and imaginary spaces of contemporary American culture.Laura E. Tanner focuses her keen attention on photographs of AIDS patients and abandoned living spaces; newspaper accounts of September 11; literary works by Don DeLillo, Donald Hall, Sharon Olds, Marilynne Robinson, and others; and material objects, including the AIDS Quilt. She analyzes the way in which these representations of the body reflect current cultural assumptions, revealing how Americans read, imagine, and view the dynamics of illness and loss. The disavowal of bodily dimensions of death and grief, she asserts, deepens rather than mitigates the isolation of the dying and the bereaved. Lost Bodies will speak to anyone imperiled by the threat of loss.

Le Corps évanoui : les images subites : exposition : Lausanne, Musée de l'Elysée, 1999
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ISBN: 2850257141 9782850257148 Year: 1999 Publisher: Paris Hazan

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Illustré de plusieurs oeuvres d'artistes vaudois ou établis dans le canton (Silvie Defraoui, Massimo Furlan, Alain Huck, Stephan Landry, Manuel Müller, Jean Otth, Louis Soutter, Irène Tétaz.)

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