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Crosscurrents Ser.: Visual Art and Self-Construction by Katrina Mitcheson (2023, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101399511181

ISBN-139781399511186

eBay Product ID (ePID)20057265004

Product Key Features

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameVisual Art and Self-Construction

SubjectCriticism & Theory, General, Aesthetics, Metaphysics

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Philosophy

AuthorKatrina Mitcheson

SeriesCrosscurrents Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsA novel theory of selfhood centered on embodiment and modeled on Louise Bourgeois' creative process. Seeking a deep form of personal emancipation, Mitcheson explores the transformative potentialities of bodily openness to aesthetic experience. Her account of the interplay between psychocorporeal subjects and artworks by Cindy Sherman and other identity-destabilizing artists is fascinating.

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Dewey Decimal701

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Self and Its Vicissitudes; 2. Beyond Narrative; 3. A Corporeal Hermeneutics of the Self; 4. Refusing What We Are; 5. An Experimental Hermeneutics of The Self; Conclusion; Bibliography; List Of Art Works Referenced.

SynopsisDrawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, Katrina Mitcheson explores how visual art can help us to know ourselves, when the self is complex, decentred and partially unconscious., Starting from Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault's criticisms of a simple, given self, 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.

LC Classification NumberNX650.S44