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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786055403321

Autore

Young Alison <1962, >

Titolo

Judging the image : art, value, law / / Alison Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

0-203-64374-7

1-134-41667-9

0-203-68380-3

1-280-04973-1

1-134-41668-7

1-283-96266-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Transformations

Disciplina

340.115

701.0309045

701/.03/09045

Soggetti

Art, Modern

Culture and law

Law and art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Judging the Image; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1 The capture of the subject; 2 Aesthetic vertigo: disgust and the illegitimate touchings of art; viewing (de)position hidings; 3 Written on the skin of the city; viewing (de)position 'where do you live?'; 4 Disappearing images and the laws of appearance; viewing (de)position gifts; 5 The art of injury and the ethics of witnessing; viewing (de)position 'is there anything you wish to ask me?'; 6 All that remains: image in a place of ruin; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 to think through problems of ethics, social authority and the legal imagination. Concepts of memory and interpretation, violence and aesthetic, authority and legitimacy are considered in a diver