In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse. At the same time, these essays introduce to art history an understanding of the place of cultural identity in the production of scholarship. Contributors explore the meaning of Jewishness to writers and artists alike through such topics as exile, iconoclasm, and anti-Semitism. Included are essays on Anselm Kiefer and Theodor Adorno; the effects of the Enlightenment; the rise of the...
In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role ...
The editing process is a vital part of virtually every form of media. Primarily associated with texts and written language, editing is equally essential, if less examined, in regard to visual media. Editing the Image looks at the editing of visual media as both a series of technical exercises and as an allegory. It touches on concerns that are crucial to the history of art and visual culture, as well as those media and institutions that produce and disseminate the visual arts in our society.
Featuring contributors from a wide range of disciplines, Editing the Image...
The editing process is a vital part of virtually every form of media. Primarily associated with texts and written language, editing is equally esse...
This is the first book to analyze the artist's biography as a rhetorical form and literary genre rather than as an unassailable source of fact and knowledge.
This is the first book to analyze the artist's biography as a rhetorical form and literary genre rather than as an unassailable source of fact and kno...
Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather in the theory and practice of portraiture in early-twentieth-century Vienna. Soussloff traces the development in Vienna of an ethics of representation that emphasized subjects as socially and historically constructed selves who could only be understood--and understand themselves--in relation to others, including the portrait painters and the viewers. In this beautifully illustrated book, she...
Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoan...
As one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault s reputation today rests on his political philosophy in relation to the contemporary subject in a neo-liberal and globalized society. This book offers insight into the role of the arts in Foucault s thought as a means to better understanding his contribution to larger debates concerning contemporary existence. Visual culture, literary, film and performance studies have all engaged with Foucauldian theories, but a full examination of Foucault s significance for aesthetic discourse has been lacking until now. This...
As one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault s reputation today rests on his political philosophy in relation to the...
As one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault s reputation today rests on his political philosophy in relation to the contemporary subject in a neo-liberal and globalized society. This book offers insight into the role of the arts in Foucault s thought as a means to better understanding his contribution to larger debates concerning contemporary existence. Visual culture, literary, film and performance studies have all engaged with Foucauldian theories, but a full examination of Foucault s significance for aesthetic discourse has been lacking until now. This...
As one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault s reputation today rests on his political philosophy in relation to the...
