|
Showing 1 - 11 of
11 matches in All Departments
In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity
matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of
authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural
situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in
law, the arts--literature, but especially the visual and performing
arts--and religion. Sincerity enters the English language in the
sixteenth century, when theatre emerged as the dominant idiom of
secular representation, during a time of major religious changes.
The present historical moment has much in common with that era;
with its religious and cultural conflicts and major transformations
in representational idioms and media. "The Rhetoric of Sincerity"
is concerned with the ways in which the performance of sincerity is
culturally specific and is enacted in different media and
disciplines. The book focuses on the theatricality of sincerity,
its bodily, linguistic, and social performances, and the success or
failure of such performances.
|
BOWNIK - Undercoat (Hardcover)
Magdalena Ziolkowska; Text written by Ernst van Alphen, Andrew Berardini, Soren Gauger, Michal Ksiazek, …
|
R1,015
Discovery Miles 10 150
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
In his monumental photographs, taken with a large-format analogue
camera, Pawel Bownik examines "artificiality" in photography.
Drawing inspiration from the classic iconography of historical
still lifes, genre painting as well as the aesthetics of 1940s
American cinema, he questions historical norms of representation.
Carefully dissecting the elementary components of his subjects, his
work is driven by his attention to minutiae. Flowers are
disassembled, only to be surgically reconstructed - without hiding
their artificiality. Alternatively, he challenges the historical
narratives symbolized by traditional costumes: Turning them
inside-out invokes the possibility of a different reading: In their
reversed state, the intricate embroideries not only reveal their
materiality, but also speak of their socio-historical context.
Undercoat encompasses Bownik's work from the past decade, informed
by the artist's awareness of the underlying patterns that give form
to our surroundings and how we perceive them.
In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity
matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of
authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural
situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in
law, the arts--literature, but especially the visual and performing
arts--and religion. Sincerity enters the English language in the
sixteenth century, when theatre emerged as the dominant idiom of
secular representation, during a time of major religious changes.
The present historical moment has much in common with that era;
with its religious and cultural conflicts and major transformations
in representational idioms and media. "The Rhetoric of Sincerity"
is concerned with the ways in which the performance of sincerity is
culturally specific and is enacted in different media and
disciplines. The book focuses on the theatricality of sincerity,
its bodily, linguistic, and social performances, and the success or
failure of such performances.
In the face of strong moral and aesthetic pressure to deal with the
Holocaust in strictly historical and documentary modes, this book
discusses why and how reenactment of the Holocaust in art and
imaginative literature can be successful in simultaneously
presenting, analyzing, and working through this apocalyptic moment
in human history.
In pursuing his argument, the author explores such diverse
materials and themes as: the testimonies of Holocaust survivors;
the works of such artists and writers as Charlotte Salomon,
Christian Boltanski, and Armando; and the question of what it means
to live in a house built by a jew who was later transported to the
death camps. He shows that reenactment, as an artistic project,
also functions as a critical strategy, one that, unlike historical
methods requiring a mediator, speaks directly to us and lures us
into the Holocaust.
We are then placed in the position of experiencing and being the
subjects of that history. We are there, and history is present--but
not quite. A confrontation with Nazism or with the Holocaust by
means of a re-enactment takes place within the representational
realm of art. Our access to this past is no longer mediated by the
account of a witness, by a narrator, by the eye of a photographer.
We do not respond to a re-presentation of the historical event, but
to a presentation or performance of it, and our response is direct
or firsthand in a different way. That different way of "keeping in
touch" is the subject of inquiry that propels this study.
Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way
we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In
"Art in Mind," Ernst van Alphen probes this idea of art as a
commanding force with the capacity to shape our intellect and
intervene in our lives. Rather than interpreting art as merely a
reflection of our social experience or a product of history, van
Alphen here argues that art is a historical agent, or a cultural
creator, that propels thought and experience forward.
Examining a broad range of works, van Alphen2;a renowned art
historian and critic of cultural theory2;demonstrates how art
serves a socially constructive function by actually experimenting
with the parameters of thought. Employing work from artists as
diverse as Picasso, Watteau, Francis Bacon, Marlene Dumas, and
Matthew Barney, he shows how art confronts its viewers with the
"pain points" of cultural experience2;genocide, sexuality,
diaspora, and transcultural identity2;and thereby transforms the
ways in which human existence is conceived. Van Alphen analyzes how
art visually "thinks" about these difficult cultural issues,
tapping into an understudied interpretation of art as the realm
where ideas and values are actively created, given form, and
mobilized. In this way, van Alphen's book is a work of art in
itself as it educates us in a new mode of thought that will forge
equally new approaches and responses to the world.
"This book advances a strong and original claim: that art, in
this case contemporary art, thinks. And in this study, thought is
always visual. The style is clear, animated, and free of jargon.
Anyone interested in contemporary art or philosophy will find this
bookinformative, thought provoking, and rewarding."2;Norman Bryson,
author of" Looking at the Overlooked"
"A highly original interdisciplinary study about the functions of
the image in contemporary art and literature. Van Alphen
brilliantly demonstrates how a theory of images developed from art
and literature can contribute to a rethinking of traditional forms
of human identity. Clearly and lucidly written, "Art in Mind" is a
work of true significance."2;Matthew Biro, author of "Anselm Kiefer
and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger"
How to Do Things with Affects develops affects as a highly
productive concept for both cultural analysis and the reading of
aesthetic forms. Shifting the focus from individual experiences and
the human interiority of personal emotions and feelings toward the
agency of cultural objects, social arrangements and aesthetic
matter, the book examines how affects operate and are triggered by
aesthetic forms, media events and cultural practices. Transgressing
disciplinary boundaries and emphasizing close reading, the
collected essays explore manifold affective transmissions and
resonances enacted by modernist literary works, contemporary visual
arts, horror and documentary films, museum displays and animated
pornography, with a special focus on how they impact on political
events, media strategies and social situations. Contributors: Ernst
van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Maria Boletsi, Eugenie Brinkema, Pietro
Conte, Anne Fleig, Bernd Herzogenrath, Tomas Jirsa, Matthias
Luthjohann, Susanna Paasonen, Christina Riley, Jan Slaby, Eliza
Steinbock, Christiane Voss.
|
You may like...
Merry Christmas
Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff, …
CD
R122
R112
Discovery Miles 1 120
|