Carnal aesthetics : transgressive imagery and feminist politics / edited by Bettina Papenburg and Marta Zarzycka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Papenburg, Bettina, 1974-

Zarzycka, Marta.

Series:

International library of visual culture ; 3.

International Library of Visual Culture ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Feminism and art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war, inequalities, ecological disasters, and revolutionary changes in technology. Carnal Aesthetics is a fascinating new examination of this aspect of contemporary visual culture. Employing recent theories of transgressive body imagery, trauma, affectivity and sensation, it provides a fresh look at the meeting point between the politics of representation and the politics of perception, through the prismatic lens of feminist theory. Acclaimed scholars, including Griselda Pollock, Vivian Sobchack, Laura Marks, Erin Manning, Jill Bennett, and Martine Beugnet, analyse seminal case studies coming from different media: digital photography, video, film and multimedia art. They explore a number of transgressive movements that significantly reconfigure the relationship between the body and the image, challenging also the primacy of vision.

Contents:

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction : Bettina Papenburg and Marta Zarzycka

Part 1. Encountering (Aesth)Ethics. Chapter 1. Trauma, Time and Painting: Bracha Ettinger and the Matrixial Aesthetic : Griseld Pollock ; Chapter 2. Showing Sounds: Listening to War Photographs : Marta Zarzycka ; Chapter 3. Another Regard : Erin Manning

Part 2. Affective Imagery. Chapter 4. Uneasy Bodies: Affect, Embodied Perception and Contemporary Fashion Photography : Eugénie Shinkle ; Chapter 5. Force of Affects, Weight of Histories in Love is a Treasure : Anu Koivunen ; Chapter 6. Atmospheric Affects : Jill Bennett

Part 3. Sentient Bodies. Chapter 7. The Dream Olfactory: On Making Scents of Cinema : Vivian Sobchack ; Chapter 8. Thinking Multisensory Culture : Laura U. Marks ; Chapter 9. Grotesque Sensations: Carnivalising the Sensorium in the Art of Wangechi Mutu : Bettina Papenburg

Part 4. Strategies of Disruption. Chapter 10. Tactile Visions: From Embodied to Encoded Love : Martine Beugnet ; Chapter 11. Art as Circuit Breaker: Surveillance Screens and Powers of Affect : Patricia Pisters ; Chapter 12. Shattered Images and Desiring Matter : A Dialogue between Hito Steyerl and Domitilla Olivieri ; Chapter 13. Mucosal Monsters : Patricia MacCormack

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780755603374

0755603370

9780857732903

0857732900

9780857721525

0857721526

OCLC:

842932575