Law and the image : the authority of art and the aesthetics of law / edited by Costas Douzinas and Lynda Nead.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Douzinas, Costas, 1951-

Nead, Lynda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and aesthetics.

Law and art.

Physical Description:

xvi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Summary:

This highly original collection brings together some of the most important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal history. The result is a fascinating discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image.

The essays draw on the critical procedures of law, art history, and cultural studies in order to create a new interdisciplinary field of visual culture and law. In exploring the hidden interdependence of law and art, the writings refute the generally held conception that law is fixed and rational while the judgment of art is autonomous and ambiguous. Among the topics addressed are the history of the relationship between art and law, the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law, and the complex relations between law, the image, and identity.

With its groundbreaking ideas from a variety of intellectual traditions and disciplines, this book puts law and art into a new and exciting conversation that will introduce a new field of study and spark international debate.

Contents:

Must justice be blind? : the challenge of images to the law / Martin Jay

Prosopon and antiprosopon : prolegomena for a legal iconology / Costas Douzinas

Molding image : genealogy and the truth of resemblance in Pliny's Natural history, book 35, I-7 / Georges Didi-Huberman

Iconography of nothing : blank spaces and the representation of law in Edward VI and the Pope / Peter Goodrich

Function of the ornament in Quintilian, Alberti, and court architecture / Piyel Haldar

Festival of justice : Paris, 1849 / Katherine Fischer Taylor

Law and justice in England and France : the view from victorian London / Jonathan P. Ribner

Bodies of judgment : art, obscenity, and the connoisseur / Lynda Nead

Not in a public lavatory but on a public stage : the prosecution of The Romans in Britain / Mandy Merck

Obscene, abject, traumatic / Hal Foster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0226569535

0226569543

OCLC:

40433189