Abject visions

Powers of horror in art and visual culture
Herausgeber: Arya, Rina; Chare, Nicholas

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Produktbeschreibung

An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9780719096280
• ISBN-10: 0719096286
• Artikelnr.: 45604424

Autorenporträt

Rina Arya is Reader in Visual Communication at the University of Wolverhampton Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Approaching abjection
Rina Arya and Nicholas Chare 1. Art, abjection and bare life
John Lechte 2. A lesbian, feminist and Canadian perspective: queering abjection
Jayne Wark 3. Manet's Abject Surrealism
Nicholas Chare 4. Juan Davila's abject after
image
Rex Butler and A. D. S. Donaldson 5. Animals, art, abjection
Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn 6. The fragmented body as an index of abjection
Rina Arya 7. Skin, body, self: the question of the abject in the work of Francis Bacon
Ernst van Alphen 8. Abjection, melancholia and ambiguity in the works of Catherine Bell
Estelle Barrett 9. Corpus Delicti
Kerstin Mey 10. Art is on the way: from the abject opening of underworld to the shitty ending of oblivion
Calvin Thomas 11. Base materials: performing the abject object
Daniel Watt Index