Đang tải...

Seeing witness : visuality and the ethics of testimony

The act of bearing witness can reveal much, but what about the figure of the witness itself? As contemporary culture is increasingly dominated by surveillance, the witness--whether artist, historian, scientist, government official, or ordinary citizen--has become empowered in realms from art to poli...

Mô tả đầy đủ

Đã lưu trong:
Chi tiết về thư mục
Tác giả chính: Blocker, Jane (Tác giả, VerfasserIn)
Định dạng: Online Resource Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2009
Truy cập trực tuyến:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttts53b
Các quyển sách có liên quan:Print version: Seeing witness
Ghi chú tác giả:Jane Blocker
E-Book Packages:JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography
Miêu tả
Tóm tắt:The act of bearing witness can reveal much, but what about the figure of the witness itself? As contemporary culture is increasingly dominated by surveillance, the witness--whether artist, historian, scientist, government official, or ordinary citizen--has become empowered in realms from art to politics. In Seeing Witness, Jane Blocker challenges the implicit authority of witnessing through the examination of a series of contemporary artworks, all of which make the act of witnessing visible, open to inspection and critique. Considering such artists as Marina Abramovi, James Luna, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Eduardo Kac, and Ann Hamilton, Blocker investigates the artists and spectators who look, the technologies they look with, and the forms of power and moral authority that permit their viewing
The act of bearing witness can reveal much, but what about the figure of the witness itself? As contemporary culture is increasingly dominated by surveillance, the witness--whether artist, historian, scientist, government official, or ordinary citizen--has become empowered in realms from art to politics. In Seeing Witness, Jane Blocker challenges the implicit authority of witnessing through the examination of a series of contemporary artworks, all of which make the act of witnessing visible, open to inspection and critique. Considering such artists as Marina Abramovi, James Luna, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Eduardo Kac, and Ann Hamilton, Blocker investigates the artists and spectators who look, the technologies they look with, and the forms of power and moral authority that permit their viewing
Mô tả sách:Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index
Mô tả vật lý:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 153 pages)
số ISBN:9780816654765
0816668043
0816654778
081665476X
9780816654772
9780816668045