Dahlberg Visualizing Law and Authority

Essays on Legal Aesthetics
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-028544-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 310 Seiten

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The volume "Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics" brings together revised papers from the international conference "Law and the Image", held in Stockholm, 24–25 September, 2010. The participants/contributors belong to the disciplines of Art history, Cultural studies, Literary and Media studies, and Law. The contributions discuss the complex relations between law, media and visual phenomena. The common theme of the essays consists in an examination of the scopic field and of regimes of visibility in phenomenological terms, arguing that law constitutes a cognitive and aesthetic field of normative world-making. Rather than merely inverting Shelley’s dictum that the "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world", the essays argue in different ways for the necessity to develop a legal aesthetics. The most immediate way of pursuing such a legal aesthetics consists in examining law itself as an aesthetic object, for instance the power of law to produce icons, in the sense of unreadable texts or textiles (Martin Kayman, Gary Watt). Several essays focus on the way that visual art and media can be used to constitute and represent political power, but also to question it and to put it into question (Chiara Battisti, Leif Dahlberg, Elina Druker, Sidia Fiorato, Paul Raffield). Other essays investigate legal structures inherent in the artwork (and the artworld) itself (Ari Hirvonen, Max Liljefors, Christine Poggi, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen). Finally, there are two essays focusing on the use of images and imagery in the legal process, explicity arguing for the need of a legal aesthetics (Daniela Carpi, Richard Sherwin). Although diverse, the individual essays are interconnected with each other in fruitful and critical ways, making both explicit and implict references to each other.

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Scholars, Departments

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dahlberg, Leif

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction. Visualising Law and Authority;7
2;Part 1. Towards a Legal Aesthetics;17
2.1;“Iconic” Texts of Law and Religion: A Tale of Two Decalogues;19
2.2;Law Suits: Clothing as the Image of Law;29
3;Part 2. Images of Law and Authority;55
3.1;Law and the Equivocal Image: Sacred and Profane in Royal Portraiture;57
3.2;Mise en scene and subversion of political power through dance:Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet;80
3.3;Mapping the Law of Stockholm. Reading Old Maps of Stockholm as Representing and Constituting Judicial Space;98
3.4;Mapping absence. Maps as meta-artistic discourse in literature;120
3.5;Iconology of Law and Dis-Order in the Television Series Law & Order Special Victims Unit;132
4;Part 3. Law and Authority in Art;145
4.1;Body Politics. Normative Gaze, Carnal Intimacy and Touching Pain in Vanessa Beecroft’s Art;147
4.2;Mirroring the Law: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Santiago Sierra, Tehching Hsieh, and Chantal Akerman;170
4.3;Body and Authority in Contemporary Art: Tehching Hsieh’s One-Year Performances;210
4.4;Global Panopticism. On the Eye of Power in Modern Surveillance Society and Post-Orwellian Self-Surveillance and Sousveillance-Strategies in Modern Art;238
5;Part 4. The Authority of the Image in Law;257
5.1;Crime Evidence: ‘Simulacres et Simulations’, Photography as Forensic Evidence;259
5.2;Constitutional Purgatory: Shades and Presences Inside the Courtroom;272
6;List of Images;299
7;Name Index;305
8;Subject Index;308

Über Autor(innen)

Leif Dahlberg, School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.