1st Edition
Self/Image Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject
Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original book explores how technology has affected artists' abilities and forms to express themselves.
From analogue photography to more recent artistic practices including digital imaging, performance robotics and video installations, Self/Image is one of the first full length studies to investigate the complex relations among these diverse artistic practices.
This will make an excellent companion to studies of contemporary art history, and media and cultural studies in the post-1960 period.
1. The Body and/in Representation: Hoc Est Corpus Meum Redux 2. "Beneath this Mask Another Mask": "No Movies"…. (No) Bodies, (No) Cities 3. (Post)Urban Self Image: "Your Greatest Creation is the Life You Lead" 4. Cinematic Self Imaging and the Televisual Body: "Happiness is Over-Rated" 5.The Body is Not Obsolete: "Desire and Action, Digital Era" 6. The Televisual Architecture of the Dream Body. Epilogue: Flanagan’s Corpse and the Limits of Representation
Biography
Amelia Jones is Professor and Pilkington Chair in the History of Art, University of Manchester. She is the author of three books, including Body Art/ Performing the Subject (1998), and editor of four books, including Performing the Body/Performing the Text (1999), The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2003), and A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 (2006).
'Self/Image... generat[es] an ethically responsible space that continues opening gaps for the emergence of differing subjectivities and bodies as well as their recognition.' - Ignaz Cassar, "The Self, the Slash, the Image", in Photography & Culture
