Limits of the visible : representing the great hunger /

Limits of the visible : representing the great hunger /

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Author / Creator:	Gibbons, Luke, author.
Imprint:	Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, [2014]
Description:	39 p. : col. ill., facsims. ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Ireland's Great Hunger Museum Famine folio series.
Subject:	Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852) Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. Famines in art. Hunger in art. Famines. Famines in art. Hunger in art. Starvation -- history. Ireland -- History -- 19th century. Ireland. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10308087

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Varying Form of Title:	Representing the great hunger
Other authors / contributors:	Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, sponsoring body.
ISBN:	0990468623 9780990468622
Notes:	The absence of photographs of the Irish Famine has been attributed to the shorcomings of a medium then in its infancy, but it may also be due to certain limitations in the visible itself. Susan Sontag argued that images can evoke sentimental responses but cannot address wider political questions of obligation and justice. In this essay, Luke Gibbons revisits representations of the Famine, particularly those in Ireland's Great Hunger Museum to argie that images can not only give visual pleasure but demand ethical interventions on the part of spectators. This fusing of sympathy and affective response with the right of redress is conveyed by a 'judicious obscurity,' a determination not to show all, whcih places an obligation on the spectator to complete what is beyond representation, or what is left to the imagination.--back cover Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-37).

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