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Carnal aesthetics : transgressive imagery and feminist politics

Contributor(s): Series: International library of visual culture ; 3Publication details: London : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Description: xiii, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781780760124
  • 1780760124
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Part I Encountering (Aesth)Ethics -- 1 Trauma, Time and Painting: Bracha Ettinger and the Matrixial Aesthetic / Griselda Pollock Pollock, Griselda 21 -- 2 Showing Sounds: Listening to War Photographs / Marta Zarzycka Zarzycka, Marta 42 -- 3 Another Regard / Erin Manning Manning, Erin 54 -- Part II Affective Imagery -- 4 Uneasy Bodies: Affect, Embodied Perception and Contemporary Fashion Photography / Eugénie Shinkle Shinkle, Eugénie 73 -- 5 Force of Affects, Weight of Histories in Love is a Treasure / Anu Koivunen Koivunen, Anu 89 -- 6 Atmospheric Affects / Jill Bennett Bennett, Jill 102 -- Part III Sentient Bodies -- 7 The Dream Olfactory: On Making Scents of Cinema / Vivian Sobchack Sobchack, Vivian 121 -- 8 Thinking Multisensory Culture / Laura U. Marks Marks, Laura U. 144 -- 9 Grotesque Sensations: Carnivalising the Sensorium in the Art of Wangechi Mutu / Bettina Papenburg Papenburg, Bettina 158 -- Part IV Strategies of Disruption -- 10 Tactile Visions: From Embodied to Encoded Love / Martine Beugnet Beugnet, Martine 175 -- 11 Art as Circuit Breaker: Surveillance Screens and Powers of Affect / Patricia Pisters Pisters, Patricia 198 -- 12 Shattered Images and Desiring Matter: A Dialogue between / Hito Steyerl Steyerl, Hito, Domitilla Olivieri Olivieri, Domitilla 214 -- 13 Mucosal Monsters / Patricia MacCormack MacCormack, Patricia 226.
Summary: Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war, inequalities, ecological disasters, and revolutionary changes in technology. Carnal Aesthetics is a fascinating new examination of this aspect of contemporary visual culture. Employing recent theories of transgressive body imagery, trauma, affectivity and sensation, it provides a fresh look at the meeting point between the politics of representation and the politics of perception, through the prismatic lens of feminist theory. Acclaimed scholars, including Griselda Pollock, Vivian Sobchack, Laura Marks, Erin Manning, Jill Bennett, and Martine Beugnet, analyse seminal case studies coming from different media: digital photography, video, film and multimedia art. They explore a number of transgressive movements that significantly reconfigure the relationship between the body and the image, challenging also the primacy of vision.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I Encountering (Aesth)Ethics -- 1 Trauma, Time and Painting: Bracha Ettinger and the Matrixial Aesthetic / Griselda Pollock Pollock, Griselda 21 -- 2 Showing Sounds: Listening to War Photographs / Marta Zarzycka Zarzycka, Marta 42 -- 3 Another Regard / Erin Manning Manning, Erin 54 -- Part II Affective Imagery -- 4 Uneasy Bodies: Affect, Embodied Perception and Contemporary Fashion Photography / Eugénie Shinkle Shinkle, Eugénie 73 -- 5 Force of Affects, Weight of Histories in Love is a Treasure / Anu Koivunen Koivunen, Anu 89 -- 6 Atmospheric Affects / Jill Bennett Bennett, Jill 102 -- Part III Sentient Bodies -- 7 The Dream Olfactory: On Making Scents of Cinema / Vivian Sobchack Sobchack, Vivian 121 -- 8 Thinking Multisensory Culture / Laura U. Marks Marks, Laura U. 144 -- 9 Grotesque Sensations: Carnivalising the Sensorium in the Art of Wangechi Mutu / Bettina Papenburg Papenburg, Bettina 158 -- Part IV Strategies of Disruption -- 10 Tactile Visions: From Embodied to Encoded Love / Martine Beugnet Beugnet, Martine 175 -- 11 Art as Circuit Breaker: Surveillance Screens and Powers of Affect / Patricia Pisters Pisters, Patricia 198 -- 12 Shattered Images and Desiring Matter: A Dialogue between / Hito Steyerl Steyerl, Hito, Domitilla Olivieri Olivieri, Domitilla 214 -- 13 Mucosal Monsters / Patricia MacCormack MacCormack, Patricia 226.

Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war, inequalities, ecological disasters, and revolutionary changes in technology. Carnal Aesthetics is a fascinating new examination of this aspect of contemporary visual culture. Employing recent theories of transgressive body imagery, trauma, affectivity and sensation, it provides a fresh look at the meeting point between the politics of representation and the politics of perception, through the prismatic lens of feminist theory. Acclaimed scholars, including Griselda Pollock, Vivian Sobchack, Laura Marks, Erin Manning, Jill Bennett, and Martine Beugnet, analyse seminal case studies coming from different media: digital photography, video, film and multimedia art. They explore a number of transgressive movements that significantly reconfigure the relationship between the body and the image, challenging also the primacy of vision.

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