Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, Critique
© 2018
In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual culture as witnessed from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Editor Desmond Manderson provides a contextual introduction that draws out and articulates three central themes: visual representations of the law, visual technologies in the law, and aesthetic critiques of law. A ground breaking contribution to an increasingly vibrant field of inquiry, Law and the Visual will inform the debate on the relationship between legal and visual culture for years to come.
Product Details
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- Page Count: 376 pages
- Dimensions: 6.5in x 1.3in x 9.1in
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Reviews
"Desmond Manderson’s Law and the Visual marks a significant development in visual studies of law. Manderson moves readers across centuries, cultural contexts, and visual media. There is nothing like this book!"
Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College"In seeking to address the various themes within the emerging body of scholarship on law and visual studies, Desmond Manderson brings together cutting-edge scholarship from both established and up-and-coming scholars."
Adam Gearey, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London -
Author Information
Desmond Manderson is a professor in the ANU College of Law and College of Arts & Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is founding Director of its Centre for Law, Arts, and the Humanities.
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Table of contents
Introduction: From Visual Evidence to Visual Discourse
Desmond MandersonPart I
Representations. The origins of legal modernity from the 16th – 19th Centuries1. Blindness Visible: Law, Time, and Bruegel's Justice
Desmond Manderson2. Face and Frames of Government
Peter Goodrich3. An Emblematic Representation of Law: Hogarth and the Engravers' Act
Cristina S. Martinez4. Law and the Revolutionary Motif after Jacques-Louis David
Morgan Thomas5. Legal Imagery on the Edge of Symbolism: The Decoration Projects for the Belgian Cour de Cassation
Stefan Huygebaert6. The Visual Force of Justice in the Making of Liberia
Shane ChalmersPart II
Technologies. Excesses of legal modernity in the 20th Century7. 'You Will See My Family Became So American': Race, Citizenship and the Visual Archive
Sherally Munshi8. From Sentimentality to Sadism: Visual Genres of Asylum Seeking
Honni Van Rijswijk9. Images of Victims: The ECCC and the Cambodian Genocide Museum
Maria Elander10. The Exceptional Image: Torture Photographs from Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib as Foucault's Spectacle of Punishment
Connal ParsleyPart III
Critique: Irony and legal modernity in the 21st Century11. T-Shirt's Guevara: The Visual Jurisprudence of the New Man
Luis Gómez Romero12. The Art of Bureaucracy: Redacted Ready-mades
Katherine Biber13. Illicit Interventions in Public Non-Spaces: Unlicensed Images
Alison YoungWhat Authorizes the Image? The Visual Economy of Post-Secular Jurisprudence
Richard K. Sherwin
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