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Doris Salcedo's Melancholy Objects

Mackie, Vera

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Abstract

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.

Subjects

MemoryFetishismMelancholyVisuality

Languages

English

Publisher

UTS ePRESS, University of Technology Sydney

DOI

10.5130/portal.v5i1.373

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