Visual Art and Self-Construction
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Online
Monographie, Elektronische Ressource
- 1 online resource (176 p.) : 8 B/W illustrations
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Demonstrates how visual art can work as a powerful technology of the selfAsks how we can know a decentred and partly unconscious self, and shows how particular artworks can help us to address this challengeIllustrates how both artists and audience members can use artworks as a means of cultivating or controlling specific aspects of the selfDraws on the work of artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise BourgeoisDemonstrates the specific contribution that visual art makes to projects of the self by discussing a variety of mediums and contemporary developments in artistic practiceStarting from criticisms of a simple, given self found in Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self.Critically examining Ricoeur’s narrative account of self-construction, Mitcheson makes the case that the narrative model overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. She develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self: exploring how visual art can operate as a critical technology of the self. Art not only exposes practices that contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore and affect bodily processes, enabling experimentation in self-construction
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Visual Art and Self-Construction
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Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | Katrina Mitcheson |
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Mitcheson, Katrina |
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Veröffentlichung: | Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022] |
Medientyp: | Monographie |
Datenträgertyp: | Elektronische Ressource |
Umfang: | 1 online resource (176 p.) : 8 B/W illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780748693689 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780748693689 |
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