Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics - Couverture souple

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Jones, David Houston

 
9781032216751: Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics
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ISBN 10 : 1032216751 ISBN 13 : 9781032216751
Editeur : Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

David Houston Jones builds a bridge between practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example in performance and installation art as well as photography.

Contemporary work in these areas responds both to forensic evidence, including crime scene photography, and to some of the assumptions underpinning its consumption. It asks how we look, and in whose name, foregrounding and scrutinising the enduring presence of voyeurism in visual media and instituting new forms of ethical engagement. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. It displays an enduring debt to the discursive model of testimony which has so far been insufficiently recognised, and which forms the basis for a new ethical understanding of the forensic. Jones's analysis brings this methodology to bear upon a strand of contemporary visual activity that has the power to significantly redefine our understandings of the production, analysis and deployment of evidence. Artists examined include Forensic Architecture, Simon Norfolk, Melanie Pullen, Angela Strassheim, John Gerrard, Julian Charrière, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras and Sophie Ristelhueber.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, literary studies, modern languages, photography and critical theory.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1032216751
ISBN 13 
9781032216751
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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ISBN 10 :  0367420937 ISBN 13 :  9780367420932
Editeur : Routledge, 2022
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