Rethinking Art and Visual Culture
The Poetics of Opacity
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Beschreibung
This is the first book to offer a systematic account of the concept of opacity in the aesthetic field. Engaging with works by Ernie Gehr, John Akomfrah, Matt Saunders, David Lynch, Trevor Paglen, Zach Blas, and Low, the study considers the cultural, epistemological, and ethical values of images and sounds that are fuzzy, indeterminate, distorted, degraded, or otherwise indistinct. Rethinking Art and Visual Culture shows how opaque forms of art address problems of mediation, knowledge, and information. It also intervenes in current debates about new systems of visibility and surveillance by explaining how indefinite art provides a critique of the positivist drive behind these regimes. A timely contribution to media theory, cinema studies, American studies, and aesthetics, the book presents a novel and extensive analysis of the politics of transparency.
Explains the aesthetic and political affordances, functions, and affects of a range of artistic expressions that are marked by illegibility or semi-legibility Becomes the first book to map out a coherent theory of indistinct art, despite the abundance of examples of opaque images and sounds in our audiovisual culture Intervenes in current debates around regimes of visibility and surveillance by showing how indistinct aesthetics may offer a critique of the positivist impulse informing these regimes Demonstrates how the notion of ethical value is closely tied to opacity in art
Autor*in
Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad
Themen in »Rethinking Art and Visual Culture«
Opacity Critique of Visibility Experimental Cinema Material Degradation Noise Art Ethics