Trauma and Affect - Ernst van Alphen illustration contemplative and hopeful

contemplative and hopeful

The book weaves together a dense collection of historic imagery into an organic and emotive narrative

and constructing new typefaces to not only demonstrate the resulting fonts but also give context to their origins

Featuring Gia Kuan

interviews and articles

Trauma and Affect - Ernst van Alphen illustration contemplative and hopefulTrauma and Affect: both concepts have become increasingly important in the critique of art, literature, and of culture in general, since the 1990s. In those years, a turn to trauma and a bit later also to affect took place. The concepts were being used in a great variety of ways, and in many disciplines and domains, such as queer studies, feminism, cultural analysis, art critique, literary studies and postcolonial studies, as well as in disciplines