Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts

By Amelia Jones

Book Overview

Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view, to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond. The book is both a history of these ideas (for example, tracing the dominance of a binary model of self and other from Hegel through classic 1970s identity politics) and a political response to the common claim in art and popular political discourse that we are "beyond" or "post-" identity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415543835
• ISBN13: 9780415543835
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"