Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject

ISBN-13: 9780415345217 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 280 str.

Amelia Jones

Opis

"Self/Image" explores the ways in which artists from the nineteenth century onwards have deployed new technologies of representation to explore and articulate shifting modes of subjectivity from the modern through the postmodern, from the urban industrial capitalist to the post-industrial global capitalist periods. The author argues that issues of aesthetics and the self are not esoteric or limited exclusively to art history, but connect with the most pressing political questions of life in industrial and post-industrial or global capitalism. For example, the way in which we understand ourselves is intimately connected to the way in which larger collective selves such as nation states understand and represent themselves on the global stage. Overall, the book seeks to expand the scope of art history to include other aspects of lived culture, especially the political.

Recenzje

'Self/Image... generat[es] an ethically responsible space that continues opening gaps for the emergence of differing subjectivities and bodies as well as their recognition.' - Photography and Culture

Spis treści

1. The Body and/in Representation: Hoc Est Corpus Meum Redux  2. "Beneath this Mask Another Mask": "No Movies"…. (No) Bodies, (No) Cities  3. (Post)Urban Self Image: "Your Greatest Creation is the Life You Lead"  4. Cinematic Self Imaging and the Televisual Body: "Happiness is Over-Rated"  5.The Body is Not Obsolete: "Desire and Action, Digital Era"  6. The Televisual Architecture of the Dream Body.  Epilogue: Flanagan’s Corpse and the Limits of Representation