1st Edition
Materiality and The Afterlife of Artworks The Rustle of Matter
Introduction: The Rustle of Matter. Materiality and the Afterlife of Artworks
Gabriel Cabello, Thierry Dufrêne and Rocío Robles Tardío
Part 1. The Life of Artworks. Discussions Held Between the Iconic and the Material Turn
1. Between Matter as an Obstacle and Matter as a Condition: The Paths of the Nachleben
Lara Bonneau
2. After Afterlife: Theorizing the Evolving Material Life of Artworks
Dan Karlholm
3. Creation, Invention: Materially Imagining
Andrea Soto Calderón
4. The Socio-political Lives of Persistent Figures
Mieke Bal
Part 2. Revisiting Art History Narrations: Materials, Figures, Mediums
5. Marbles Banished and Unearthed. (Im)materiality in the Sacristy of San Lorenzo, by Brunelleschi
Juan José Lahuerta
6. Anachronism, Material, and Memory. Luciano Fabro and the Ghost of Sculpture
Duccio Nobili
7. Many Afterlives. Pablo Picasso´s Guernica in the Imaginary of the Atomic War, ca. 1943
Rocío Robles Tardío
8. Memory and Materiality: Pax in Lucem and the Survival of Torres García’s Destroyed Murals
Helena Wilhelm Eilers
Part 3. Engaging with Afterlife as Artistic Practice
9. No Afterlife! Ad Reinhardt’s Refusal of the Material Alteration of His Works
Dario Gamboni
10. An Endless Restart: The Material Transformation of Ana Lupas’s Works
Ileana Parvu
11. Just Afterlife: Materials and the Museum Interstices in the Work of Gala Porras-Kim
Gabriel Cabello
12. Liminality in the Work of Pierre Huyghe
Thierry Dufrêne
Biography
Gabriel Cabello is Professor of Art History at the Universidad de Granada, Spain.
Thierry Dufrêne is Professor of Art History at the Université Paris Nanterre, France.
Rocío Robles Tardío is Professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
