Precarious Visualities
New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
1st Edition
Published on 22. June 2014
449 pages
978-0-7735-7439-7 (ISBN)
Description
The transformation of our relation to images in contemporary visual culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
United States
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
51 b&w photographs
51 b&w photographs
File size
4,90 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-7439-7 (9780773574397)
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Olivier Asselin | Johanne Lamoureux | Christine Ross
Precarious Visualities
New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
Book
07/2008
McGill-Queen's University Press
€38.50
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Olivier Asselin | Johanne Lamoureux | Christine Ross
Precarious Visualities
New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
Book
07/2008
McGill-Queen's University Press
€154.50
Article not available at the moment
Persons
Olivier Asselin is associate professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies, University of Montréal. Johanne Lamoureux is professor in the Department of Art History, University of Montréal. Christine Ross is professor and James McGill
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Precarious Visualities of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
- PART ONE: "Am I Still in the Picture?": The Unsettling of Identification
- Introduction
- 1 Self-Portraits
- 2 Ending Myths and the Catholic Outing of Andy Warhol
- 3 The Persistence of Spectatorship: The Racialized and Ethnicized Gaze
- 4 "Are We Still in the Game?": David Cronenberg's eXistenZ
- PART TWO: Interfaces of (In)Visibility
- Introduction
- 5 What the Body Remembers: Rebecca Belmore's Memorial to Missing Women
- 6 The Threshold of an Interface: Ilya Kabakov's Looking up, Reading the Words (1997)
- 7 The Star and the Prisoner: The Spectacle and Surveillance of the Self on the Web
- PART THREE: The Staging of Hallucination (of Hallucination)
- Introduction
- 8 Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
- PART FOUR: Para-Siting Visuality
- Introduction
- 9 Media Image, Public Space, and the Body: Around Krzysztof Wodiczko's Alien Staff
- 10 Mediating Place-Identity: Notes on Mathias Woo's A Very Good City
- PART FIVE: The Polysensorialized Screen
- Introduction
- 11 Janine Antoni's Lick and Lather: Eroticism as Identity Subversion
- 12 Televisual Flesh: The Body, the Screen, the Subject
- 13 Real Time, Lived Time: A R Art, Perception, and the Possibility of the Event
- PART SIX: The Generating Image
- Introduction
- 14 The Descent of the Image
- 15 Resemblance and Identification: The Paradox of Gary Schneider's Genetic Self-Portrait
- 16 Variations on Genetic Insignificant: Metaphors of the (Non)Code
- Author Bios
- Index
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