Forgetting Lot's Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship

Contents

Contents List of Figures ix List of Plates xi Preface  Introduction 5 Anonymous 5 Picturing Lot’s Wife 7 Cities and Subjects 13 Forget 20 Chapter One Artaud, Spectatorship, and Catastrophe 23 Figures of Spectatorship 23 Is the Ideal Spectator Dead? 28 Bodies after the Disaster 36 Chapter Two Hollywood Sodom 41 Enjoying the Pain of Others 41 Avant-Garde Lot 45 Strange Love in Sodom 54 On the Beach 67 vii viii Contents Chapter Three Anselm Kiefer’s Lot’s Wife: Perspective and the Place of the Spectator 76 Sebald and Sodom 76 From the Cockpit 81 Out of Perspective 86 Tracks 90 Commandments 96 Coda Lot’s Wife on September 11, 2001; or, Against Figuration 103 Notes  Bibliography  Index  ...