TY - JOUR
T1 - "Memory is the primary Instrument, The Inexhaustible Nutrient Source": Remediations of Literary Romanticism in Sally Man's Family Photographs
AU - Wesseling, E.
PY - 2011/1/1
Y1 - 2011/1/1
N2 - It has been argued that Romantic images of childhood have disappeared from late twentieth-century culture, and that the innocent child of nature has made way for the "knowing child." However, if we go beyond pictorial traditions and include literary Romanticism, a caesura in the cultural construction of childhood becomes questionable. A close reading of Sally Mann's Immediate Family, an album of art photographs that have been proposed as crucial evidence of a break in the aesthetics and poetics of childhood, shows that the continuities between Mann's family photographs and the Romantic paradigm vastly outnumber the discontinuities.
AB - It has been argued that Romantic images of childhood have disappeared from late twentieth-century culture, and that the innocent child of nature has made way for the "knowing child." However, if we go beyond pictorial traditions and include literary Romanticism, a caesura in the cultural construction of childhood becomes questionable. A close reading of Sally Mann's Immediate Family, an album of art photographs that have been proposed as crucial evidence of a break in the aesthetics and poetics of childhood, shows that the continuities between Mann's family photographs and the Romantic paradigm vastly outnumber the discontinuities.
U2 - 10.1515/arca.2011.001
DO - 10.1515/arca.2011.001
M3 - Article
SN - 1613-0642
VL - 46
SP - 3
EP - 15
JO - Arcadia - International Journal for Literary Studies
JF - Arcadia - International Journal for Literary Studies
IS - 1
ER -