Book description
Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view, to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond.
The book is both a history of these ideas (for example, tracing the dominance of a binary model of self and other from Hegel through classic 1970s identity politics) and a political response to the common claim in art and popular political discourse that we are "beyond" or "post-" identity. In challenging this latter claim, Seeing Differently critically examines how and why we "identify" works of art with an expressive subjectivity, noting the impossibility of claiming we are "post-identity" given the persistence of beliefs in art discourse and broader visual culture about who the subject "is," and offers a new theory of how to think this kind of identification in a more thoughtful and self-reflexive way.
Ultimately, Seeing Differently offers a mode of thinking identification as a "queer feminist durational" process that can never be fully resolved but must be accounted for in thinking about art and visual culture. Queer feminist durationality is a mode of relational interpretation that affects both "art" and "interpreter," potentially making us more aware of how we evaluate and give value to art and other kinds of visual culture.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1. Introduction: the leaking frame of the argument on how to see differently
- 2. Art as a binary proposition; identity as a binary proposition
- 3. Fetishizing the gaze and the anamorphic perversion: ”the other is you”
- 4. Multiculturalism, intersectionality, and “post-identity”
- 5. Queer feminist durationality: time and materiality as a means of resisting spatial objectification
- 6. Seeing and reconceiving difference: concluding thoughts, without final conclusions
- Index
Product information
- Title: Seeing Differently
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136509261
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