Points Of Trauma: A Consideration of the Influence Personal and Collective Trauma Has on Contemporary Art

How does art that draws from an individuals experience influence society as a whole? Does the hidden trauma of an artist provoke a reflected response for individual viewers? In this essay Oliver Guy-Watkins has investigated the work of artists using personal and collective trauma as a base for the work they produce. From Doris Salcedo's representation of the Columbian Civil War, through Bas Jan Ader's emotive films, to Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin's collaborative sketches. In this book ...