Dahlberg Visualizing Law and Authority

Essays on Legal Aesthetics
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-028544-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 310 Seiten

Reihe: Law & Literature

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Scholars, Departments

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dahlberg, Leif

Fachgebiete

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

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.