Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts Contributor(s): Manderson, Desmond (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107158664 ISBN-13: 9781107158665 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Jurisprudence - Law | Entertainment |
Dewey: 344.097 |
LCCN: 2018041013 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 8.4" W x 9.3" (1.30 lbs) 306 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The visual arts offer refreshing and novel resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This vibrantly interdisciplinary book brings the burgeoning field to a new maturity through extended close readings of major works by artists from Pieter Bruegel and Gustav Klimt to Gordon Bennett and Rafael Cauduro. At each point, the author puts these works of art into a complex dance with legal and social history, and with recent developments in legal and art theory. Manderson uses the idea of time and temporality as a focal point through which to explore how the work of art engages with and constitutes law and human lives. In the symmetries and asymmetries caused by the vibrating harmonic resonances of these triple forces - time, law, art - lies a way of not only understanding the world, but also transforming it. |
Contributor Bio(s): Manderson, Desmond: - Desmond Manderson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor in the Australian National University, Canberra College of Law and the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is the author of several books including Songs without Music (2000), Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law (2012), and Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, and Critique (2017). |