Images of power and the power of images / edited by Judith Kapferer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapferer, Judith.

George R. Gund Memorial Fund.

Series:

Space and place ; v. 7.

Space and place ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Visual communication.

Physical Description:

vi, 155 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Summary:

Kapferer (sociology, U. of Bergen, Norway) presents eight papers that explore the aesthetics of power as it manifests in public space from anthropological, sociological, and socio-cultural perspectives. The papers consider how ideologies of power are manifested concretely in public structures and displays and how they articulate definitions of social value. Specific sites of analysis include an art fair in London, roads in provincial Peru, mass housing in Britain, walls in divided Jerusalem, a scientific exhibit on anatomy, a Japanese Zen garden, and religious displays in India. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Twilight of the enlightenment: the art fair, the culture industry and the "creative class" / Judith Kapferer

Cementing relations: the materiality of roads and public space in provincial Peru / Penelope Harvey

Multifaceted monolith: the hidden diversity of mass housing / Miles Glendinning

Folding and enfolding walls: statist imperatives and bureaucratic aesthetics in divided Jerusalem / Don Handelman

Body shock: the political aesthetics of death / Uli Linke

The symbolic body and the rhetoric of power / Laura Verdi

The limits of metaphor: ideology and representation in the Zen garden / Allen S. Weiss

Images of transgression: teyyam in Malabar / Dinesan Vadakkiniyil.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Gund Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0857455141

9780857455147

9780857455154

085745515X

OCLC:

759912341

Publisher Number:

99954121785