Arts of Subjectivity: A New Animism for the Post-Media Era

Arts of Subjectivity: A New Animism for the Post-Media Era
Author: Jacob W. Glazier
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2019-12-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350085839

Bringing thinking from the arts and digital humanities into dialogue with one another, this book investigates what it means to be alive in a world that is structured by technology, the media, and an ever expanding sense of a global community. In this unique time in our history, when we are bombarded by signs and symbols and constantly connected into gadgets, apps, and networks, it has become increasingly difficult to navigate what has been dubbed a 'post-truth' world. Critiques taken from post-colonial studies and neoanimism help challenge the paranoia that has become endemic and, indeed, symptomatic to global realities we are now witnessing. This pertains not only to the ecological degradation of the planet but also to the lingering remnants of eurocentrism and racism that have taken the forms of nationalism and fascism. As a guide, an updated version of what Michel Foucault called an arts of existence may help us sail in these treacherous and confusing waters. Diving into post-structuralist French theory, through American feminism, and emerging out of media studies, this book argues for an ethical and aesthetic form of self-fashioning that runs counter to processes subjection and mediatization. This craft of life, as Plato called it, is a space of disjunction and liberation, between subjectivity and other, where something new and different has the potential to emerge and mould to our likeness.

Subjectivity and Synchrony in Artistic Research

Subjectivity and Synchrony in Artistic Research
Author: Johanna Schindler
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839444470

Artistic research has become an established mode of inquiry and knowledge production in many fields. Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative practices of two artistic research projects in the fields of digital musical instrument design and responsive environments. How are individual research modes organized? Which forms of knowledge are at stake? And what sort of influence do institutional settings, spatial arrangements, and boundary objects have on the emerging research dynamics? Schindler's ethnographic study explores these questions and suggests concrete measurements that can be utilized to adapt the research environments, funding structures, and evaluation criteria of artistic research projects to the specific needs of this emerging field.

Subjectivity in Motion

Subjectivity in Motion
Author: Naamah Akavia
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0415536235

Naamah Akavia delves deep into the history and life story of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychiatrist known today for his inkblot test, and examines how the motif of movement figured into his psychological theory and psychiatric practice.

The Subject in Art

The Subject in Art
Author: Catherine M. Soussloff
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2006-10-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780822336709

Argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather within early-twentieth-century Viennese portraiture.

Women Making Art

Women Making Art
Author: Marsha Meskimmon
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780415242783

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Youth, Arts, and Education

Youth, Arts, and Education
Author: Anna Hickey-Moody
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135145857

How are the arts important in young people’s lives? Youth, Arts and Education offers a groundbreaking theory of arts education. Anna Hickey-Moody explores how the arts are ways of belonging, resisting, being governed and being heard. Through examples from the United Kingdom and Australia, Anna Hickey-Moody shows the cultural significance of the kinds of learning that occur in and through arts. Drawing on the thought of Gilles Deleuze, she develops the theory of affective pedagogy, which explains the process of learning that happens through aesthetics. Bridging divides between critical pedagogical theory, youth studies and arts education scholarship, this book: Explains the cultural significance of the kinds of learning that occur in and through arts Advances a theory of aesthetic citizenship created by youth arts Demonstrates ways in which arts practices are forms popular and public pedagogy Critiques popular ideas that art can be used to fix problems in the lives of youth at risk Youth, Arts and Education is the first post-critical theory of arts education. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, in particular in the sociology of education, arts education, youth studies, sociology of the arts and cultural studies.

Roman Eyes

Roman Eyes
Author: Jaś Elsner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2007-04-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780691096773

In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which images were used, from the religious to the voyeuristic, from the domestic to the subversive. He reads images alongside and against the rich literary tradition of the Greco-Roman world, including travel writing, prose fiction, satire, poetry, mythology, and pilgrimage accounts. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed art--their preoccupations and theories, their cultural biases and loosely held beliefs. Roman Eyes is not a history of official public art--the monumental sculptures, arches, and buildings we typically associate with ancient Rome, and that tend to dominate the field. Rather, Elsner looks at smaller objects used or displayed in private settings and closed religious rituals, including tapestries, ivories, altars, jewelry, and even silverware. In many cases, he focuses on works of art that no longer exist, providing a rare window into the aesthetic and religious lives of the ancient Romans.

Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood

Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood
Author: Professor Peder Jothen
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1409470180

In the digital world, Kierkegaard's thought is valuable in thinking about aesthetics as a component of human development, both including but moving beyond the religious context as its primary center of meaning. Seeing human formation as interrelated with aesthetics makes art a vital dimension of human existence. Contributing to the debate about Kierkegaard's conception of the aesthetic, Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood argues that Kierkegaard's primary concern is to provocatively explore how a self becomes Christian, with aesthetics being a vital dimension for such self-formation. At a broader level, Peder Jothen also focuses on the role, authority, and meaning of aesthetic expression within religious thought generally and Christianity in particular.

Body Art/performing the Subject

Body Art/performing the Subject
Author: Amelia Jones
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780816627738

"With great originality and scholarship, Amelia Jones maps out an extraordinary history of body art over the last three decades and embeds it in the theoretical terrain of postmoderism. The result is a wonderful and permissive space in which the viewer...can wander"...-Moira Roth, Trefethen professor of art history, Mills College.

Across the Art/life Divide

Across the Art/life Divide
Author: Martin Patrick
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Art and society
ISBN: 9781783208548

Martin Patrick explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres. Examining the impact of various art movements on notions of performance, authorship, and identity, Across the Art/Life Divide argues that the most defining feature of contemporary art is the ongoing interest of artists in the problematic relationship between art and life. Looking at underexamined forms, such as stand-up comedy and sketch shows, alongside more traditional artistic media, he situates the work of a wide range of contemporary artists to ask: To what extent are artists presenting themselves? And does the portrayal of the "self" in art necessarily constitute authenticity? By dissecting the meta-conditions and contexts surrounding the production of art, Across the Art/Life Divide examines how ordinary, everyday life is transformed into art.