Trauma and Visuality in Modernity

In recent years, trauma has emerged as an important lens for the analysis of cultural productions.

Most such analyses, however, have focused on literary works, despite the fact that the experience of trauma - which, by definition, is imperfectly apprehended in the moment of experience - is susceptible to subsequent processing by means of the visual arts.

Although a few works of art history and criticism have addressed the issue of trauma in the context of the Holocaust, the larger question of visual representations of trauma during the modern period remains largely unaddressed.

This collection will be among the first books to apply to trauma in visual productions the same careful analysis that has already been applied to the topic in literary ones.