Rethinking Art and Visual Culture | The Poetics of Opacity

Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad

ISBN 10: 3030461785 / ISBN 13: 9783030461782

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Rethinking Art and Visual Culture | The Poetics of Opacity | Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad | Taschenbuch | ix | Englisch | 2021 | Palgrave Macmillan | EAN 9783030461782 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Art and Visual Culture | The Poetics of Opacity
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030461785
• ISBN 13: 9783030461782
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 12D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 276 grams
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Synopsis

This is the first book to offer a systematic account of the concept of opacity in the aesthetic field. Engaging with works by Ernie Gehr, John Akomfrah, Matt Saunders, David Lynch, Trevor Paglen, Zach Blas, and Low, the study considers the cultural, epistemological, and ethical values of images and sounds that are fuzzy, indeterminate, distorted, degraded, or otherwise indistinct. Rethinking Art and Visual Culture shows how opaque forms of art address problems of mediation, knowledge, and information. It also intervenes in current debates about new systems of visibility and surveillance by explaining how indefinite art provides a critique of the positivist drive behind these regimes. A timely contribution to media theory, cinema studies, American studies, and aesthetics, the book presents a novel and extensive analysis of the politics of transparency.

About the Author

Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad is a film scholar and professor of Visual Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is founding director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture and the author/editor of ten books, the most recent of which are Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing (co-edited with Henrik Gustafsson & Øyvind Vågnes, 2016), Film and the Ethical Imagination (Palgrave 2016), and Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture (co-edited with Øyvind Vågnes, Palgrave 2019). Grønstad is also a founding editor of the journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture.