Open AccessDoris Salcedo’s Melancholy Objects
Author(s) -
Vera Mackie
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
portal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1449-2490
DOI - 10.5130/portal.v5i1.373
Subject(s) - doris (gastropod) , fetishism , art , art history , politics , sociology , anthropology , political science , law
This article takes Doris Salcedo's work 'Atrabiliarios' (held in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) as the starting point for a discussion of the mechanisms of melancholy and fetishism. This is linked to a discussion of the politics of looking, museum displays and memory