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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Blocker, Jane (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Kunst
Subjektivität
Wirklichkeit
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Visual communication in art.
Subjectivity in art.
Reality in art.
Art, Modern.
ART > History > Contemporary (1945- )
ART > General.
Art > 21e siecle.
Communication visuelle dans l'art.
Realite dans l'art.
Subjectivite dans l'art.
Art, Modern > 21st century.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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