Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts

Seeing Differently 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. The 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.

Author: Amelia Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/21/2012
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780415543835

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2013

About the Author

Amelia Jones 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 Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2003, 2010). Her most recent book is Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (2006), will be followed in 2012 and her major volume, Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History, co-edited with Adrian Heathfield, is due out in 2011.