{"product_id":"seeing-differently-a-history-and-theory-of-identification-and-the-visual-arts-paperback","title":"Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmelia Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeeing Differently\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a \"world picture\" expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view, to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is both a history of these ideas (for example, tracing the dominance of a binary model of self and other from Hegel through classic 1970s identity politics) and a political response to the common claim in art and popular political discourse that we are \"beyond\" or \"post-\" identity. In challenging this latter claim, \u003cem\u003eSeeing Differently\u003c\/em\u003e critically examines how and why we \"identify\" works of art with an expressive subjectivity, noting the impossibility of claiming we are \"post-identity\" given the persistence of beliefs in art discourse and broader visual culture about who the subject \"is,\" and offers a new theory of how to think this kind of identification in a more thoughtful and self-reflexive way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, \u003cem\u003eSeeing Differently\u003c\/em\u003e offers a mode of thinking identification as a \"queer feminist durational\" process that can never be fully resolved but must be accounted for in thinking about art and visual culture. Queer feminist durationality is a mode of relational interpretation that affects both \"art\" and \"interpreter,\" potentially making us more aware of how we evaluate and give value to art and other kinds of visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmelia Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture at McGill University in Montréal. Her recent publications include major essays on Marina Abramovic (in TDR), on feminist art and curating, and on performance art histories, as well as the edited volume \u003cem\u003eFeminism and Visual Culture Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (2003, 2010). Her most recent book is \u003cem\u003eSelf\/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), will be followed in 2012 and her major volume, \u003cem\u003ePerform Repeat Record: Live Art in History\u003c\/em\u003e, co-edited with Adrian Heathfield, is due out in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932627452152,"sku":"9780415543835","price":80.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/hTtyNtcmxb9780415543835.webp?v=1783898095","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/seeing-differently-a-history-and-theory-of-identification-and-the-visual-arts-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}