Christine Ross

The Aesthetics of Disengagement

Contemporary Art and Depression

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Produktbeschreibung

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than half of the world's population will have a depressive disorder at some point in their lifetimes. In The Aesthetics of Disengagement Christine Ross shows how contemporary art is a powerful yet largely unacknowledged player in the articulation of depression in Western culture, both adopting and challenging scientific definitions of the condition. Ross explores the ways in which contemporary art performs the detached aesthetics of depression, exposing the viewer's loss of connection and ultimately redefining the function of the image. Ross examines the works of Ugo Rondinone, Rosemarie Trockel, Ken Lum, John Pilson, Liza May Post, Vanessa Beecroft, and Douglas Gordon, articulating how their art conveys depression's subjectivity and addresses a depressed spectator whose memory and perceptual faculties are impaired. Drawing from the fields of psychoanalysis as well as psychiatry, Ross demonstrates the ways in which a body of art appropriates a symptomatic language of depression to enact disengagement - marked by withdrawl, radical protection of the self from the other, distancing signals, isolation, communication ruptures, and perceptual insufficiency. Most important, Ross reveals the ways in which art transforms disengagement into a visual strategy of disclosure, a means of reaching the viewer, and how in this way contemporary art puts forth a new understanding of depression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780816645398
• ISBN-10: 0816645396
• Artikelnr.: 21298117

Autorenporträt

Christine Ross is associate professor and chair of art history and communication studies at McGill University and author of Images de surface: L'art video reconsidere.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Withering
of Melancholia2. The Laboratory3. Image-Screens, or the Aesthetic Strategy
of Disengagement4. Nothing to See?5. Against the De-mentalization of the
Subject NotesIndex