Vivian, Bradford and Anne Teresa Demo. “Introduction.” Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form. Eds. Anne Teresa Demo and Bradford Vivian. New York: Routledge, 2012. eBook.
“To remember in late modernity is to store, send, or retrieve content” (Vivian and Demo)
“resources of personal memory training represent contemporary self-help equivalents to the classical ars memoriae” (Vivian and Demo)
“internet search thus provides a suggestive juxtaposition between contemporary technologies of memory and the classical art of memory” (Vivian and Demo)
“Associations between memory and visual phenomena supply the common denominator between these apparently antithetical paradigms of memory” (Vivian and Demo)
“the ancient memories were trained by an art which reflected the art and architecture of the ancient world” (Frances Yates qtd in Vivian and Demo).
“To remember, then as now, is to see.” (Vivian and Demo)
“generate valuable insights concerning not only how memories may be seen in visual form but also how visual forms constitute noteworthy material sites of memory” (Vivian and Demo)
“visual media can efficiently and reliably hypostasize the putative contents of memory” (Vivian and Demo)
“we presume an ability to mechanistically retrieve either part or all of our memories through some form of sight” (Vivian and Demo)
“visual artifacts materially facilitate practices of remembrance” (Vivian and Demo)
“contemporary artists routinely demonstrate the power of visual forms to evoke compelling senses of memory… dramatizing its personal, cultural, and technological variability” (Vivian and Demo)
“memory is profoundly informed by visual media, through rhetorical dynamics: visual and memorial forms coalesce according to the ways in which practices of interpretation, argumentation, or communication assign shared meaning” (Vivian and Demo)
“The relevant rhetorical question is why material intersections among images and memory sometimes succeed and sometimes fail as persuasively wrought depictions—or sightings—of the past” (Vivian and Demo)
“visual memory can ironically precede corporeal experience” (Vivian and Demo)
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