Seeing whole : toward an ethics and ecology of sight / edited by Mark Ledbetter and Asbjørn Grønstad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ledbetter, Mark, editor.

Grønstad, Asbjørn, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual perception.

Art and philosophy.

Environmental ethics.

Physical Description:

xi, 291 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Seeing Whole: Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking. Looking at an image entails the mobilizatian of a range of affordances that together produce sight and insight as a phenomenological experience, namely cultural predispositions, geographical situatedness, medium specificity, personal biography, socio-political relationality, and corporeal affectability. In their own diverse ways, the essays in this book suggest that acts of seeing make up a visual ecology that, in turn, introduces a new ethical horizon distinct from, but in continuous interaction with, conventional ethics. This interdisciplinary collection offers a thorough reconceptualization of the relation between the aesthetics and the ethics of images and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Tropes of Globalization / Jillian Sandell Sandell, Jillian 7

Chapter 2 Ideological Mappings of Gendered Bodies, Nations, and Spaces in Louis Chu's 1961 Chinatown Novel, Eat a Bowl of Tea / Jean Amato Amato, Jean 19

Chapter 3 Public and Private in Light of Lingerie: Images within Images / Lucy Bowditch Bowditch, Lucy 49

Chapter 4 Street Art as "Exerciser for Vision": Hamburg Graffiti Writer Oz and the Community of Smileys / Natalia Samutina Samutina, Natalia 63

Chapter 5 Nature as Image in Olafur Eliasson's Art: A Media Ecological Perspective / Synnøve Marie Vik Vik, Synnøve Marie 101

Chapter 6 In/Visible Disability, Stare Theory, and Video's Ecologies of Seeing/Seeing Whole: Bill Shannon in Perspective(s) / Susan G. Cumings Cumings, Susan G. 119

Chapter 7 Defying Description: Ambiguous Bodies in Victorian Discourse about Disability / Darby Jean Walters Walters, Darby Jean 173

Chapter 8 "Lost in Space: the 'Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is' or The Blind Men and the Elephant" / Mark Ledbetter Ledbetter, Mark 191

Chapter 9 Painting that 'Holds the Eyes and Moves the Souls of Its Spectators': Vision and Response in Leon Batista Alberti's Renaissance Treatise on Painting / Theresa Flanigan Flanigan, Theresa 203

Chapter 10 Performing Painting: On the Time of Embodied Vision / Robert R. Shane Shane, Robert R. 237

Chapter 11 The 'Art of Seeing' in Bruegel's Paintings / Jean-Louis Claret Claret, Jean-Louis 261

Chapter 12 Seeing Red: Bergman's Cries and Whispers / Brigitte Peucker Peucker, Brigitte 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781443887076

1443887072

OCLC:

937455393

Publisher Number:

99966985529