001477506 000__ 05376nam\a22009135i\4500 001477506 001__ 1477506 001477506 003__ DE-B1597 001477506 005__ 20231026034813.0 001477506 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477506 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477506 008__ 230103t20092009nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477506 020__ $$a9780823237647 001477506 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823237647$$2doi 001477506 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)555218 001477506 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1099113913 001477506 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477506 0410_ $$aeng 001477506 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477506 072_7 $$aPER000000$$2bisacsh 001477506 08204 $$a155.9/35$$222 001477506 1001_ $$aHarries, Martin, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477506 24510 $$aForgetting Lot's Wife :$$bOn Destructive Spectatorship /$$cMartin Harries. 001477506 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2009] 001477506 264_4 $$c©2009 001477506 300__ $$a1 online resource (192 p.) :$$b22 Black & White and color illustrations 001477506 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477506 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477506 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477506 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477506 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tList of Figures -- $$tList of Plates -- $$tPreface -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tChapter One Artaud, Spectatorship, and Catastrophe -- $$tChapter Two Hollywood Sodom -- $$tChapter Three Anselm Kiefer's Lot's Wife: Perspective and the Place of the Spectator -- $$tCoda Lot's Wife on September 11, 2001; or, Against Figuration -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001477506 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477506 520__ $$aCan looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot's Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lot's wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at disaster might petrify the spectator. Although rarely articulated directly,this idea remains powerful in our culture. This book traces some of its aesthetic, theoretical, and ethical consequences. Harries traces the figure of Lot's wife across media. In extended engagements with examples from twentieth-century theater, film, and painting, he focuses on the theatrical theory of Antonin Artaud, a series of American films, and paintings by Anselm Kiefer. These examples all return to the story of Lot's wife as a way to think about modern predicaments of the spectator. On the one hand, the sometimes veiled figure of Lot's wife allows these artists to picture the desire to destroy the spectator; on the other, she stands as a sign of the potential danger to the spectator. These works, that is, enact critiques of the very desire that inspires them.The book closes with an extended meditation on September 11, criticizing the notion that we should have been destroyed by witnessing the events of that day. 001477506 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477506 546__ $$aIn English. 001477506 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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