Nicholas Chare
Biographic Data
| ID | 616165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Chare |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Chare |
| SIGNATURE | CHARE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sound and Fury. Lending an Ear to Francis Bacon in The Shout (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978, uk)
The Shout (1978), directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, is a horror film that centres upon a man, Charles Crossley, capable of executing a shout so intense that its effects overwhelm those who hear it. As the film’s title suggests, acoustic phenomena are central to the narrative. Another key protagonist, Anthony Fielding, is an avant-garde composer. He experiments with various noises as he makes works of musique concrète . Photographic reproductions of …
In Her Hands
From 1828 to 1829 at a house in St. John’s in Newfoundland, the Beothuk woman Shanawdithit created a series of drawings of the history and customs of her community.1 These works were produced at th
The Auschwitz Sonderkommando
Noah Shenker. Reframing Holocaust Testimony
The art historian Meyer Schapiro describes a picture frame as “a finding and focussing device placed between the observer and the image” (“On Some Problems in the Semiotics of Visual Art: Field and Vehicle in Image-Signs,” Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 6, no. 1 [1972–1973]: 11). Schapiro draws attention to how the frame mediates our experience of the visual, guiding our perceptions. In Reframing Holocaust Testimony, Noah …
Introduction
In 2012 at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian archives in Los Angeles, Cassils gave a first performance of the ongoing artwork Becoming an Image (a work that combines performance, photography and sculp
Landscape into Portrait
In 1931, the memoir Fra mand til kvinde: Lili Elbe’s bekendelser [From Man to Woman: Lili Elbe’s Confessions] was published in Denmark.1 Using pseudonyms, the account details the life of Lili Elven
Matters of Testimony
Matters of Testimony
In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these “Scrolls of Auschwitz,” which were gradually recovered, in damaged and…
Gesture in Shoah
This essay analyses gesture as embodied history in Claude Lanzmann’s film Shoah. It explores how gestures can serve as vital indicators of traumatic experience and also potentially assist in working through traumas. Gestures in Shoah are examined for the referential meaning they hold which can provide insights as valuable as those contained within the oral histories scholars have previously tended to focus on in their readings of the film. Gestur…
Introduction
In his classic study, Gesture, Adam Kendon describes the visible actions that comprise utterances (Kendon, 2004, pp. 1–2). These visible utterances can occur in conjunction with, or independently t
Fugitive Aesthetics
This essay builds on Jacques Rancière's exploration of the relationship between aesthetics and politics to analyse queer sexuality in Don Siegel's prison film Escape from Alcatraz. The film both illustrates and embodies what Rancière refers to as a redistribution of the sensible, an opening up of a new way of making sense of the world. In Escape from Alcatraz this sense-making is bound up with same-sex desire. Rancière is usually concerned with a…
Introduction
The idea for this special issue of Paragraph on the theme ‘Screening Embodiment’ emerged from our long-standing research interests regarding the interrelationships between film, gender and the body. The title of the issue aims to capture some of the varied ways in which these relationships can be conceived. Etymologically, the word ‘screen’ has roots in the Old High German term skrank which refers to a bar, barrier or fence. Film itself, as a pho…
Listen with Mowitt
Trauma and Testimony
This chapter deals with a range of work published on the topics of trauma and testimony in 2011. It is divided into six sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Beyond Representation; 3. Memory and Trauma; 4. Hidden Histories; 5. Edited Collections; 6. Afterimages. These sections address themes such as the body as witness, gender and historiography, and trauma and aesthetics. The chapter also examines discussions of a number of different media used to conve…
Francis Bacon
Handling pressures
This paper examines how films produced in the USA in the past 10 years and featuring the coaching of youth sport, represent the issue of touch during instruction and training. Touch in such films is figured in diverse ways ranging from pats of reassurance and hugs of congratulation to cuffs of disapprobation. Touch is also occasionally depicted differently, dependent upon the ethnicity and gender of the central characters in specific films. These…
Trauma and Testimony
Journal Article 7Trauma and Testimony Get access Nicholas Chare Nicholas Chare Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 114–132, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbs007 Published: 30 May 2012
Pressing the Flesh
Trauma and Testimony
Journal Article 8 Trauma and Testimony Get access Nicholas Chare Nicholas Chare Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 173–192, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbr008 Published: 13 May 2011
Policing Technology
This article attends to the television show The Wire's (2002–2008) soundtrack, demonstrating some of the ways in which it specifically seeks to engage the ear of its audience. The ways in which The Wire explores the roles of both sound and vision in law enforcement are examined. The article suggests that the show draws attention to often overlooked acoustic aspects of police culture. The Wire demonstrates how the ever increasing importance of tec…
Writing Perceptions
Body panic
Body panic: gender, health, and the selling of fitness Shari L. Dworkin & Faye Linda Wachs, 2009 New York, New York University Press £13:99 (pbk), 225 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-1968-8 The cover of the Oc
Testimony
This chapter deals with a range of work published on the topic of testimony in 2007 and is divided into six sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Unsettling Viewing: Art after Auschwitz; 3. Witnessing Pedagogy; 4. History, Politics, Remembrance; 5. Shame; 6. Edited Collections.
Upon the Scents of Paint
Francis Bacon's interest in the synaesthetic imagery of the playwright Aeschylus is well known. Synaesthesia is a condition in which the stimulation of one sense causes a perception to occur in another sense. For a synaesthete hearing a sound can, for example, trigger the perception of a colour. This article examines a number of ways in which Bacon's paintings can be seen to rouse senses other than the visual. Many of his artworks encourage audit…
Sexing the Canvas
The first part of this article explores current art‐historical approaches to gender through three case studies: the Venus of Willendorf; Michelangelo; and Artemisia Gentileschi. The second part employs case studies to examine how ideas about gender have historically been articulated and performed through the use of specific media and techniques. There has been little research devoted to how mediums (such as fresco, oil, and watercolour) and techn…
Body panic
Body panic: gender, health, and the selling of fitness Shari L. Dworkin & Faye Linda Wachs, 2009 New York, New York University Press £13:99 (pbk), 225 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-1968-8 The cover of the Oc
Regarding the pain
Painting is the silent art. What does paint sound like? Paint, feint, quaint, taint, saint ... paint rhymes ... paint has rhythm ... paint the word; not paint the thing. Paint the thing is coated by the
Landscape into Portrait
In 1931, the memoir Fra mand til kvinde: Lili Elbe’s bekendelser [From Man to Woman: Lili Elbe’s Confessions] was published in Denmark.1 Using pseudonyms, the account details the life of Lili Elven
Introduction
In his classic study, Gesture, Adam Kendon describes the visible actions that comprise utterances (Kendon, 2004, pp. 1–2). These visible utterances can occur in conjunction with, or independently t
Introduction
In 2012 at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian archives in Los Angeles, Cassils gave a first performance of the ongoing artwork Becoming an Image (a work that combines performance, photography and sculp
Conceptual (Dis)Orders
Introductions
Testimony
This chapter deals with a range of work published on the topic of testimony in 2003 and is divided into nine sections: 1. The Field; 2. Memento; 3. Pitch Black; 4. Event Horizon; 5. The Silence; 6. The Fog; 7. Dr Mabuse; 8. The Invisible Man; 9. Blow-up(s).
Books
Regarding the pain
Painting is the silent art. What does paint sound like? Paint, feint, quaint, taint, saint ... paint rhymes ... paint has rhythm ... paint the word; not paint the thing. Paint the thing is coated by the
The Gap in Context
The Gap in Context:Giorgio Agamben's Remnants of Auschwitz Nicholas Chare (bio) "Mind the Gap," a common phrase on the London Underground, a phrase so familiar as to usually pass unheard and unseen when it is encountered, a phrase that has attained the invisibility that accompanies any and all familiarity. It is a phrase that has become a gap in experience. It does not promote reflection. It goes unremembered. Stepped over, it passes unnoticed. "…
Testimony
This chapter deals with a range of work published on the topic of testimony in 2004 and is divided into six sections: 1. Resisting Representation; 2. Memories; 3. Writing Testimony; 4. Histories; 5. Attesting Images; 6. Witnessing Theory.
Passages to Paint
The Grain of the Interview
Entwined Voices
Nicholas Chare: As part of Defixiones you give a potent, highly original rendition of Paul Celan's well known poem Todesfuge. Other Celan poems have been sung before; perhaps most notably by Ute Lemper in Michael Nyman's Songbook, but these interpretations have always seemed too beautiful given the pain resting beneath Celan's words. We do not think that this is a claim that can be made about your own performance but when you were singing about t…
Testimony
This chapter deals with a range of work published on the topic of testimony in 2006 and is divided into seven sections: 1. First Impressions; 2. Art Writing; 3. Paul Celan; 4. Primo Levi; 5. Differing Memories; 6. Reflections; 7. Uncovering.
Testimony
This chapter deals with a range of work published on the topic of testimony in 2007 and is divided into six sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Unsettling Viewing: Art after Auschwitz; 3. Witnessing Pedagogy; 4. History, Politics, Remembrance; 5. Shame; 6. Edited Collections.
Upon the Scents of Paint
Francis Bacon's interest in the synaesthetic imagery of the playwright Aeschylus is well known. Synaesthesia is a condition in which the stimulation of one sense causes a perception to occur in another sense. For a synaesthete hearing a sound can, for example, trigger the perception of a colour. This article examines a number of ways in which Bacon's paintings can be seen to rouse senses other than the visual. Many of his artworks encourage audit…
Sexing the Canvas
The first part of this article explores current art‐historical approaches to gender through three case studies: the Venus of Willendorf; Michelangelo; and Artemisia Gentileschi. The second part employs case studies to examine how ideas about gender have historically been articulated and performed through the use of specific media and techniques. There has been little research devoted to how mediums (such as fresco, oil, and watercolour) and techn…
Body panic
Body panic: gender, health, and the selling of fitness Shari L. Dworkin & Faye Linda Wachs, 2009 New York, New York University Press £13:99 (pbk), 225 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-1968-8 The cover of the Oc
Trauma and Testimony
Journal Article 8 Trauma and Testimony Get access Nicholas Chare Nicholas Chare Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 173–192, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbr008 Published: 13 May 2011
Policing Technology
This article attends to the television show The Wire's (2002–2008) soundtrack, demonstrating some of the ways in which it specifically seeks to engage the ear of its audience. The ways in which The Wire explores the roles of both sound and vision in law enforcement are examined. The article suggests that the show draws attention to often overlooked acoustic aspects of police culture. The Wire demonstrates how the ever increasing importance of tec…
Writing Perceptions
Trauma and Testimony
Journal Article 7Trauma and Testimony Get access Nicholas Chare Nicholas Chare Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 114–132, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbs007 Published: 30 May 2012
Pressing the Flesh
Trauma and Testimony
This chapter deals with a range of work published on the topics of trauma and testimony in 2011. It is divided into six sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Beyond Representation; 3. Memory and Trauma; 4. Hidden Histories; 5. Edited Collections; 6. Afterimages. These sections address themes such as the body as witness, gender and historiography, and trauma and aesthetics. The chapter also examines discussions of a number of different media used to conve…
Francis Bacon
Handling pressures
This paper examines how films produced in the USA in the past 10 years and featuring the coaching of youth sport, represent the issue of touch during instruction and training. Touch in such films is figured in diverse ways ranging from pats of reassurance and hugs of congratulation to cuffs of disapprobation. Touch is also occasionally depicted differently, dependent upon the ethnicity and gender of the central characters in specific films. These…
Listen with Mowitt
Matters of Testimony
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