Art and the Performance of Memory

Richard Cándida Smith is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the Director of the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. He focuses on the modern intellectual and cultural history of the arts. He is the author of Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California (1995) and Mallarmé's Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience (1999).

This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. The essays highlight the role of oral history in the documentation of the visual and performing arts.

1. Richard Cándida Smith Introduction: Performing the Archive 2. Warren Linds, Alejandra Medell iacute;n and Kadi Purru Resonating Testimonies from/in the Space of Death: Performing Buenaventura's La Maestra 3. Stephanie Marlin-Curiel Truth and Consequences: Art in Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 4. Anne Rutherford Precarious Boundaries: Affect, Mise-en-sc eacute;ne, and the Senses 5. Elvan Zabunyan Stratum and Resonance: Displacement in the Work of Ren eacute;e Green 6. David Michalski Cities Memory Voices Collage 7. Paul Karlstrom Eros in the Studio 8. Jeff Friedman Muscle Memory: Performing Embodied Knowledge 9. Ryan Snyder 'Hope...Teach, Yaknowhati'masyin': Freestylin Knowledge through Detroit Hiphop 10. Richard C aacute;ndida Smith Les Gammes: Making Visible to Representative Modern Man 11. Ana Maria Mauad Composite Past: Photography and Family Memories in Brazil (1850-1950) 12. Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins Memories of Mammy 13. Ivy Schroeder Official Art, Official Publics: Public Sculpture under the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program since 1972 14. Iain Borden and Jane Rendell Private Reflections/Public Matters: Public Art in the City