Judging the Image: Art, Value, LawArt, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the Image extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. This book provides a space to think through problems of ethics, social authority and the legal imagination. Concepts of memory and interpretation, violence and aesthetic, authority and legitimacy are considered in a diverse range of sites, including: * body, performance and regulation * judgment, censorship and controversial artworks * graffiti and the aesthetics of public space * HIV and the art of the disappearing body * witnessing, ethics and the performance of suffering * memorial images - art in the wake of disaster. |
Contents
1 The capture of the subject | 1 |
disgust and the illegitimate touchings of art | 20 |
3 Written on the skin of the city | 50 |
4 Disappearing images and the laws of appearance | 78 |
5 The art of injury and the ethics of witnessing | 98 |
image in a place of ruin | 121 |
Notes | 141 |
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abuse aesthetic Andres Serrano appearance artist artwork Athey Athey’s attacks audience Australian beauty become blood blue bodily body building chapter Chris Burden city’s contemporary crime scene criminal critic death described disgusting display event example exhibition experience Felix Gonzalez-Torres Figure film gallery graffiti writers Ground Zero High Court Hindley Hindley’s HIV positive Holy Virgin Mary Holzer homosexual advance imagine individual injury installation Jarman Jenny Holzer judgment law’s Libeskind LMDC locations looking Lustmord Mapplethorpe Marcus Harvey Melbourne memorial murder museum Myra Myra Hindley naked object obscenity Ofili’s painting participants performance phantasy photograph piece Piss Christ police public discourse public space quoted relation response Robert Mapplethorpe Ron Athey sculpture Sensation sense September 11th sexual spectator spectator’s Spencer Tunick Stelarc stencil TheAge there’s towers trauma Untitled urine vandalism victim viewer violence visual walls World Trade Center York City