Passage Works

Ruth Beckermann's Art

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by Patricia Allmer and John Sears

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Ruth Beckermann
Keywords: Ruth Beckermann, arts, Austria
Publishing date: 2025 (February 25, 2025)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English

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Hardcover • 336 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5261-7250-1

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Book Presentation:
Passage Works is the first book-length English language critical analysis of the transdisciplinary work of the Austrian film-maker, writer, and artist Ruth Beckermann (b. 1952, Vienna). Beckermann's works interrogate identity and geography as formations of the intersections between the past and the contemporary. Taking as her central topics Austria and its history and politics, her own identity as a Jewish woman, and the contemporary global geopolitics of migration and displacement, Beckermann develops wider meditations in film, art, and writing on the persistence of European memory, and the meanings of Europe itself; on borders, migrations, and identities; on memories, traumas, and traditions; on the image as marker of presence and absence, repository of the traces of historical violence; and on the passage as metaphor for a range of physical, psychological, and ideological movements defining the complexities of contemporary cosmopolitan identities.

About the authors:
Patricia Allmer is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of EdinburghJohn Sears is a freelance scholar

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