204 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the Image extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. This book provides a space... Read more
Chapter 1 The capture of the subject; Chapter 2 Aesthetic vertigo; Chapter 2a viewing (de) position; Chapter 3 Written on the skin of the city; Chapter 3a viewing (de)position; Chapter 4 Disappearing images and the laws of appearance; Chapter 4a viewing (de)position; Chapter 5 The art of injury and the ethics of witnessing; Chapter 5a viewing (de)position; Chapter 6 All that remains; Notes; BibliographyIndex;
Biography
Alison Young is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
'Young explores law's relationship with the image through a number of specific contexts, ranging through photography, graffiti, performace art, and memorials.' -International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
