Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law |  | Creators: Costas Douzinas, Lynda Nead
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Pages: 284
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0226569543
Dewey Decimal Number: 340.11
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Publication Date: June 1, 1999
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This highly original collection brings together some of the most important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal history. The result is a fascinating discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image.
The essays draw on the critical procedures of law, art history, and cultural studies in order to create a new interdisciplinary field of visual culture and law. In exploring the hidden interdependence of law and art, the writings refute the generally held conception that law is fixed and rational while the judgment of art is autonomous and ambiguous. Among the topics addressed are the history of the relationship between art and law, the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law, and the complex relations between law, the image, and identity.
With its groundbreaking ideas from a variety of intellectual traditions and disciplines, this book puts law and art into a new and exciting conversation that will introduce a new field of study and spark international debate.
Contributors are: Georges Didi-Huberman, Costas Douzinas, Hal Foster, Peter Goodrich, Piyel Haldar, Martin Jay, Mandy Merck, Lynda Nead, Jonathan Ribner, Katherine Fischer Taylor.
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ABOUT THE INTERRELATION OF LAW AND AESTHETICS April 13, 2002
Luciano Lupini (Caracas Venezuela)
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This is an interesting recopilation of essays about the relationship of law and art, normativism and creativity, obscenity and common mores. It contains contributions by several scholars in the field of Art and Law and is edited by professors Costas Douzinas and Lynda Nead.
The main scope of the book is to provide insights into the relationship between art and the law. As the editors write in the introduction:
"Lawyers live by the text and love the past, they hate novelty and misunderstand new languages. The law is able to appreciate new art only after it becomes like law. Great art, on the other hand, precisely because it breaks away from conventions and rules and expresses creative freedom and imagination, is the anthitesis of law. The law of art is the opposite of the rule of law......"
So here we find out how the individual is treated in abstract by the law and how the self in art is free, corporeal, with gender and history. We also learn about the allegorical images of Justice, during different ages and how obscenity, law and art intermingle. I found very illuminating,in this perspective, the basic qualities that prof. Nead assigns to the connoisseur of art: knowledge and judgment. "Connoisseurship -she writes- assumes a thorough knowledge of the subject concerned, which forms the basis of a critical judgment. But what kind of judgment is involved in connosseurship? The obvious answer would seem to be, an aesthetic sort-the perception and appraisal of pure form, of that which is beautiful. But at the point at which connoisseurship appears to have clearly defined aims and objects, the borders begin to dissolve; cerebral criteria become corporalized and the judgement of artistic form is compromised by the regulation of bodies and behaviors.."
And finally a startling conclusion is drawn: the prevention of obscenity by law acts to control mass culture and publics and to insulate the high culture and private consumption from legal intervention. This because what gentlemen choose to have in their private collections is a matter of taste; it is not a matter for the law......
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