Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture

by Christine Ross, Johanne Lamoureux, Olivier Asselin

Through the study of exemplary media works and practices - photography, film, video, performance, installations, web cams - scholars from various disciplines call attention to the unsettling of identification and the disablement of vision in contemporary aesthetics. To look at an image that prevents the stabilization of identification, identity and place; to perceive a representation that oscillates between visibility and invisibility; to relate to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773533907
• ISBN13: 9780773533905
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"