10.4225/03/59e401b68c669
KAREN FRANCES MCLEOD ADAIR
KAREN FRANCES MCLEOD
ADAIR
More Than Memory: Visual Legacies of the Pol Pot Regime
Monash University
2017
Cambodia
war
history
archive
trauma
memory
art
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
2017-10-16 00:47:49
Thesis
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/More_Than_Memory_Visual_Legacies_of_the_Pol_Pot_Regime/5492407
This thesis examines the work of Cambodian and non-Cambodian artists that represent the Khmer Rouge period. It traces their artistic approach and identifies links with historical and contemporary political, social and cultural developments, as well as exploring the links with cultural institutions that have supported and promoted the rebuilding of visual arts practice in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge era.
I analyse and interpret 184 images created between 1980 and 2016, drawing on theories and concepts from art history, visual culture and the social sciences, producing the first critical survey of visual representations of this calamitous period in Cambodia’s history.