1st Edition

Seeing Differently A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts

By Amelia Jones Copyright 2012
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view, to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond. The book... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction, The Leaking Frame of the Argument on How to See Differently  Chapter 2.  Art as a Binary Proposition; Identity as a Binary Proposition  Chapter 3. Fetishizing the Gaze and the Anamorphic Perversion: "The Other is You"  Chapter 4. Multiculturalism, Intersectionality, and "Post-Identity"  Chapter 5. Queer Feminist Durationality: Time and Materiality as a Means of Resisting Spatial Objectification  Chapter 6. Seeing and Reconceiving Difference, Concluding Thoughts, without Final Conclusions

Biography

Amelia Jones is Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture at McGill University in Montréal. Her recent publications include major essays on Marina Abramović (in TDR), on feminist art and curating, and on performance art histories, as well as the edited volume Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2003, 2010). Her most recent book is Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (2006), will be followed in 2012 and her major volume, Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History, co-edited with Adrian Heathfield, is due out in 2011.