Image, History and Memory: Central and Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective

This book discusses the active relationship among the mechanics of memory, visual practices, and historical narratives.

Reflection on memory and its ties with historical narratives cannot be separated from reflection on the visual and the image as its points of reference which function in time. This volume addresses precisely that temporal aspect of the image, without reducing it to a neutral trace of the past, a mnemotechnical support of memory. As a commemorative device, the image fixes, s...