David Zwirner Books

David Zwirner Books - Summoning pearl harbor | alexander nemerov

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• Summoning Pearl Harbor is a mesmerizing display of linguistic force that redefines remembering
• How do words make the past appear
• In what way does the historian summon bygone events
• What is this kind of remembering
• And for whom do we recall the dead
• Or the past
• In this highly original meditation on the past
• Renowned art historian Alexander Nemerov delves into what it means to recall a significant event—Pearl Harbor—and how descriptions of images can summon it back to life
• Beginning with the photo album of a former Japanese kamikaze pilot
• Which is reproduced in this volume