Performing Arts, Criticism, History, Movies 

This groundbreaking collection is among the first in the field of art history to explore the relation between the traumatic and the visual field in the modern period. Ranging across media and spanning from the origins of modernity to the present, the essays gathered here pursue trauma as a structuring yet elusive subject of representation. Examining the most revelatory instances of encounter between event and image, between history and visual form, this collection offers an account of the centrality of trauma's visualization to an understanding of modernity. 

1. Trauma as representation : a meditation on Manet and Johns / Isabelle Wallace
2. Walker Evans's depression and the trauma of photography / Eric Rosenberg
3. Canova's penitent Magdalene : on trauma's prehistory / Erika Naginski
4. When memory speaks : a monument bears witness / Lisa Saltzman
5. Car crash 1960 / Judith F. Rodenbeck
6. "Normal ills" : on embodiment victimization and the origins of feminist art / Anna C. Chave
7. The "rememory" of slavery : Kara Walker's The end of Uncle Tom and the grand allegorical tableau of Eva in heaven / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
8. Literature and the enactment of memory (Duras, Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour) / Cathy Caruth
9. The revivifying artist : Boltanski's efforts to close the gap / Ernst van Alphen
10. The post-traumatic turn and the art of Walid Ra'ad and Krzysztof Wodiczko : from theory to trope to beyond / Mark Jarzombek.