- SKU: 9783030461782
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Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity - Paperback
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by Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Asbj?rn Skarsv?g Gr?nstad 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 & ?yvind V?gnes, 2016), Film and the Ethical Imagination (Palgrave 2016), and Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture (co-edited with ?yvind V?gnes, Palgrave 2019). Gr?nstad is also a founding editor of the journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture.
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