Crossmappings : on visual culture / Elisabeth Bronfen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bronfen, Elisabeth, author.

Series:

New encounters: arts, cultures, concepts.

New encounters. Arts, cultures, concepts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Feminism and the arts.

Gender identity in art.

Sex in art.

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Summary:

The great, influential cultural critic, Elisabeth Bronfen, sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema and visual culture. The crossmappings facilitated in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between the body and its visual representability, the gendering of war, death and the fragility of life, as well as sovereignty and political power. Each chapter tracks transformations that occur as aesthetic figurations travel from one historical moment to another, but also from one medium to another. Many prominent artists are discussed during these journeys into the cultural imaginary, include Degas, Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman, Paul McCarthy, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Wagner, Picasso, and Shakespeare, as well as classic Hollywood's film noir and melodrama and the TV series, The Wire and House of Cards.

Contents:

Part I. Travelling image formulas

Facing defacement: Degas' portraits of women

Naked touch: disfiguration, recognition and the female nude

Leaving an imprint: Francesca Woodman's photographic tableaux vivants

Pop cinema: Hollywood's critical engagement with America's culture of consumption

Hitler goes pop: totalitarianism, avant-garde aesthetics and Hollywood entertainment

Simulations of the real: Paul McCarthy's performance disasters

Wagner's Isolde in Hollywood

Shakespeare's wire

Queen of chess: on serial reading

Part II. Gendering the uncanny, imagining death

The horror of the familiar: Freud's thoughts on femininity and the uncanny

Gendering curiosity: the double games of Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster and Sophie Calle

The other self of the imagination: Cindy Sherman's hysterical performance

Eva Hesse's spectral bride and her uncanny double

Wounds of wonder: Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Nabuyoshi Araki

The fragility of the quotidian: Eija-Liisa Ahtila's work with death

Picasso's war women

Contending with the father: Louise Bourgeois and her aesthetics of reparation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-382) and index.

ISBN:

1788311078

9781788311076

OCLC:

1004073419

Publisher Number:

99977693905