Abject visions: Powers of horror in art and visual culture - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719096294 ISBN 13: 9780719096297

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2016

Synopsis

This major new volume brings together leading international scholars to debate the continuing importance and relevance of the concept of abjection for the interpretation of modern and contemporary culture. This genuinely interdisciplinary collection includes important new essays that draw on the work of Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva and other key critical thinkers to provide innovative readings of works of art, film, theatre and literature. The clear and accessible essays in this volume extend the existing literature on abjection in exciting new ways to demonstrate the enduring richness of the concept.

About this title

About the Author:

Rina Arya is Reader in Visual Communication at the University of Wolverhampton

Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal

Review:

The exploration of the implications of abjection: being abject, positioning as abject, for the visual and performing arts defines for this collection a double relevance. It adds to the study of abjection; it adds also to the analysis of a range of artistic practices.... most of the chapters will themselves become significant in their areas while the whole performs an enlivening re-engagement and expansion of abjection as a term in contemporary cultural analysis.' Griselda Pollock

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0719096294
• ISBN 13: 9780719096297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Arya Rina, Chare Nicholas