Danse macabre : temporalities of law in the visual arts / Desmond Manderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manderson, Desmond, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law in art.

Law and art.

Time in art.

Time and art.

Time (Law)--Social aspects.

Time (Law).

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The visual arts offer refreshing and novel resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This vibrantly interdisciplinary book brings the burgeoning field to a new maturity through extended close readings of major works by artists from Pieter Bruegel and Gustav Klimt to Gordon Bennett and Rafael Cauduro. At each point, the author puts these works of art into a complex dance with legal and social history, and with recent developments in legal and art theory. Manderson uses the idea of time and temporality as a focal point through which to explore how the work of art engages with and constitutes law and human lives. In the symmetries and asymmetries caused by the vibrating harmonic resonances of these triple forces - time, law, art - lies a way of not only understanding the world, but also transforming it.

Contents:

Bruegel's Justice : anachronic time

Reynolds's justice, Blackstone's laws : diachronic time

Governor Arthur's Proclamation : utopian time

Turner's Slave ship : now time

Klimt's Jurisprudence : suspended time

Bennett's laws : colonial time

Cauduro's crimes : ectoplasmic time.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2019).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781316665985

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.