Doris Salcedo’s Melancholy Objects

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.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
Main Author:	Vera Mackie
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	UTS ePRESS 2008-02-01
Subjects:	Memory Fetishism Melancholy Visuality
Online Access:	http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/373

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