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Visualizing Law and Authority : Essays on Legal Aesthetics.

The volume "Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics" brings together revised papers from the international conference "Law and the Image", held in Stockholm, 24-25 September, 2010. The participants/contributors belong to the disciplines of Art history, Cultural...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dahlberg, Leif
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012.
Colección:Law & Literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Visualising Law and Authority; Part 1. Towards a Legal Aesthetics; "Iconic" Texts of Law and Religion: A Tale of Two Decalogues; Law Suits: Clothing as the Image of Law; Part 2. Images of Law and Authority; Law and the Equivocal Image: Sacred and Profane in Royal Portraiture; Mise en scene and subversion of political power through dance:Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet; Mapping the Law of Stockholm. Reading Old Maps of Stockholm as Representing and Constituting Judicial Space; Mapping absence. Maps as meta-artistic discourse in literature.
  • Iconology of Law and Dis-Order in the Television Series Law & Order Special Victims UnitPart 3. Law and Authority in Art; Body Politics. Normative Gaze, Carnal Intimacy and Touching Pain in Vanessa Beecroft's Art; Mirroring the Law: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Santiago Sierra, Tehching Hsieh, and Chantal Akerman; Body and Authority in Contemporary Art: Tehching Hsieh's One-Year Performances; Global Panopticism. On the Eye of Power in Modern Surveillance Society and Post-Orwellian Self-Surveillance and Sousveillance-Strategies in Modern Art; Part 4. The Authority of the Image in Law.
  • Crime Evidence: 'Simulacres et Simulations', Photography as Forensic EvidenceConstitutional Purgatory: Shades and Presences Inside the Courtroom; List of Images; Name Index; Subject Index.