Publisher's Synopsis
Erasure: The Spectre of Cultural Memory brings together artists, curators, scholars, and thinkers to explore key issues around the increasing aesthetic and cultural erasure occurring in our society. It moves from the seminal act of the American Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg erasing a drawing by the painter Willem de Kooning in 1953, perhaps signaling that an echo or trace would be all that is valued in the future, to the impact that the new technologies--such as Twitter, Facebook, email, smartphones, snapchat, and Instagram--are having on family, class, sex, time, speed, and space.
