Public figures
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Author
Publication
2012 - Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
19,750 words, Guess
Page Count
79 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780819573117
- ISBN-139780819573124
- ISBN-100819573116
- ISBN-100819573124
- Library of Congress Control Number2012012530
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number783862012
- Better World Books9780819573117
- Better World Books9780819573124
- Open LibraryOL25276451M
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3565.S6 P83 2012
- LCCPS3565.S6P83 2012
Description
Public Figures is an essay-poem with photographs and text that begins with a playful thought experiment: statues of people in public spaces have eyes, but what are they looking at? To answer that question, Jena Osman sets up a camera to track the gaze of a number of statues in Philadelphia--mostly 19th century military figures carrying weapons. How does their point of view differ from our own? And how does it compare, say, to the point of view of other watchful military figures, such as drone pilots? In this book, Osman combines the histories behind these statues with poetic narratives that ask us to think about our own relational positions, and how our own everyday gaze may be complicit with the gun-sights of war. Public Figures illustrates how history is transformed, and even erased, by monuments and other public records of events. Through poetry, those histories can be made visible again.
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