Seeing witness : visuality and the ethics of testimony /

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The act of bearing witness can reveal much, but what about the figure of the witness itself? As contemporary culture is increasingly dominated by surveillance, the witness--whether artist, historian, scientist, government official, or ordinary citizen--has become empowered in realms from art to poli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blocker, Jane (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
Temas:
2000-2099
Subjectivity in art.
Reality in art.
Visual communication in art.
Art, Modern > 21st century.
Art, Modern.
Subjectivité dans l'art.
Réalité dans l'art.
Communication visuelle dans l'art.
Art > 21e siècle.
ART > General.
ART > History > Contemporary (1945- )
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Wirklichkeit
Subjektivität
Kunst
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Imagery specialists
  • I. History. A promise always disappointing: the ethics of history in Ulay and Abramović's The lovers ; Peoples of memory: James Luna and the production of history ; Binding to another's wound: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ross McElwee on weddings
  • II. Technology. A cemetery of images: photography and witness in the work of Gilles Peress and Alfredo Jaar ; Machine memory: digital witness in Dumb Type's memorandum
  • III. Biopower. This being you must create: transgenics, witness, and selfhood in the work of Eduardo Kac and Christine Borland ; The shame of biological being: microbiology and theories of subjectivity in a project by Ann Hamilton and Ben Rubin
  • Conclusion: A mysterious picture of God.

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