Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Editor’s Preface: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts Griselda Pollock Introduction: Visual Politics and Psychoanalyses Griselda Pollock I National Wounds and Contested Memory 1 Contest-Nation: Denmark– A PSTD-Struck Nation Contesting Analysis Henrik Ole Holm 2 Miniature Objects of Cultural Covenant: Transition and Translation in British North America Kristin Huneault 3 The Irish ’Holocaust” and the Commemoration of Famine Emily FitzGerald II Trauma and Allegory 4 Courbet’s Trauerspiel: Trouble with Women in the Studio Jennifer Tennant Jackson 5 Astonishing Marine Living: Ellen Gallagher at the Freud Museum Suzanna Chan III Fear and Surveillance 6 Transfixed: The Expression of Emotion as a History of Images Sharon Sliwinski 7 Dan Graham, Reality Television and the Society of Surveillance Paula Carabell IV Violence and Sexual Difference 8 Towards an Iconomy of Violence: Julia Kristeva in the Between of Ethics and Politics Maria Margaroni 9 From Horrorism to Compassion: Re-facing Medusan Otherness in dialogue with Adriana Cavarero and Bracha Ettinger Griselda Pollock 10 Encountering Blue Steel: Changing Tempers in Cinema Nicholas Chare Contributors’ Biographies Bibliography Index

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About the Author

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Her books include Vision and Difference (1988/2003), Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2007) and After-affects / After- Image: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation (2013). She is series editor of New Encounters, editor of Conceptual Odysseys (2007) and co-editor with Antony Bryant of Digital and Other Virtualities (2010), as well as two other volumes, all for I.B.Tauris. With Max Silverman she is series editor of Concentrationary Memory for I.B.Tauris which includes Concentrationary Memories (2013), while Concentrationary Imaginaries is forthcoming.