Seeing whole
Subtitle: toward an ethics and ecology of sight
By: edited by Mark Ledbetter and Asbjørn Grønstad
Edition: 1st unabridged.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781443887076
Subjects: Visual perception; Art and philosophy; Environmental ethics
Description: Explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking. Looking at an image entails the mobilization of a range of affordances that together produce sight and insight as a phenomenological experience, namely cultural predispositions, geographical situatedness, medium specificity, personal biography, socio-political relationality, and corporeal affectibility. In their own diverse ways, the essays in this book suggest that acts of seeing make up a visual ecology that, in turn, introduces a new ethical horizon distinct from, but in continuous interaction with ,conventional ethics. Spanning a great variety of media forms - from painting and photography to film, video, literature, fashion, graffiti, and installation art - this interdisciplinary collection offers a thorough reconceptualization of the relation between the aesthetics and the ethics of images and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: List of illustrations; title: Introduction / Mark Ledbetter and Asbjørn Grønstad; title: Tropes of globalization /Jillian Sandell; title: Ideological mappings of gendered bodies, nations, and spaces in Louis Chu's 1961 Chinatown novem, Eat a Bowl of Tea / Jean Amato; title: Public and private in light of lingerie: images wtihin images / Lucy Bowditch; title: Street art as "exerciser for vision:" Hamburg graffiti writer Oz and the Community of Smileys / Natalia Samutina; title: Nature as image in Olafur Eliasson's at: a media ecological perspective / Synnøve Marie Vik; title: In/visible disability, stare theory, and video's ecologies of seeing/seeing whole: Bill Shannon in perspective(s) / Susan G. Cumings; title: Defying description: ambiguous bodies in Victorian discourse about disability / Darby Jean Walters; title: "Lost in space: the 'nothing that is not there and the nothing that is' or The Blind Men and the Elephant" / Mark Ledbetter; title: Painting that "holds the eyes and moves the souls of its spectators:" vision and response in Leon Batista's Renaissance treatise On Painting / Theresa Flanigan; title: Performing painting: on the time of embodied vision / Robert R. Shane; title: The "art of seeing" in Bruegel's paintings / Jean-Louis Claret; title: Seeig red: Bergman's Cries and Whispers / Brigitte Peucker; title: Contributors.