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The Aesthetics of Disengagement - Contemporary Art and Depression (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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The Aesthetics of Disengagement - Contemporary Art and Depression (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than
half of the world's population will have a depressive disorder at
some point in their lifetimes. In The Aesthetics of Disengagement
Christine Ross shows how contemporary art is a powerful yet largely
unacknowledged player in the articulation of depression in Western
culture, both adopting and challenging scientific definitions of
the condition. Ross explores the ways in which contemporary art
performs the detached aesthetics of depression, exposing the
viewer's loss of connection and ultimately redefining the function
of the image. Ross examines the works of Ugo Rondinone, Rosemarie
Trockel, Ken Lum, John Pilson, Liza May Post, Vanessa Beecroft, and
Douglas Gordon, articulating how their art conveys depression's
subjectivity and addresses a depressed spectator whose memory and
perceptual faculties are impaired. Drawing from the fields of
psychoanalysis as well as psychiatry, Ross demonstrates the ways in
which a body of art appropriates a symptomatic language of
depression to enact disengagement - marked by withdrawl, radical
protection of the self from the other, distancing signals,
isolation, communication ruptures, and perceptual insufficiency.
Most important, Ross reveals the ways in which art transforms
disengagement into a visual strategy of disclosure, a means of
reaching the viewer, and how in this way contemporary art puts
forth a new understanding of depression.
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