Spirit hunter
the haunting of American culture by myths of violence : speculations on Jeremy Blake's Winchester trilogy
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Author
Contributions
- Blake, Jeremy, 1971- - Contributor
- York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery. - Contributor
Publication
2005 - Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario
Language
English
Word Count
43,500 words, Guess
Page Count
174 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22484947M
- ISBN-10092197244X
- OCLC Control Number64770204
- OCLC Control Number60566984
- OCLC Control Number1032667618
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- Internet Archivespirithunterhaun0000monk
- LibraryThing9540679
- Goodreads366298
Classifications
- LCCN6537.B522M66 2005
Description
One cinema-architecture responds to another as the nineteenth-century mansion of the heiress to the Winchester Repeating Rifle fortune haunts once again through the hallucinated images of American artist Jeremy Blake's Winchester Trilogy. Blake's invention of a new genre of art between video and painting---video projection as time-based painting---is the medium through which Sarah Winchester's mad architectural project (constructed to appease spirits killed by her family's manufacture) transmits its ghostly inheritance. Spirit Hunter examines how its mythic haunting by violence reverberates today in America's wars. The book ranges widely through frontier myth, American foreign policy, technology, war, film history, psychoanalytic theory (Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok's cryptonymy), and philosophy (Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas), as it weaves art analysis into the troubled history of a social artifact. As Blake tells his story purely through images issuing as haunting from the architecture of Winchester house, Spirit Hunter pursues its speculation on the secrets Sarah Winchester shielded through her fabled mansion into the image itself to question whether she was hostage to her haunting or to national myth.
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