The aesthetics of disengagement

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Reveals the artistic subjectivity of the scientific notion of depression.



According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than half of the world's population will have a depressive disorder at some point in their lifetimes. In The Aesthetics of Disengagement Christine Ross shows how contemporary art is a powerful yet largely unacknowledged player in the articulation of depression in Western culture, both adopting and challenging scientific definitions of the condition. Ross explores the ways in which contemporary art performs the detached aesthetics of depression, exposing the viewer's loss of connection and ultimately redefining the function of the image. Ross examines the works of Ugo Rondinone, Rosemarie Trockel, Ken Lum, John Pilson, Liza May Post, Vanessa Beecroft, and Douglas Gordon, articulating how their art conveys depression's subjectivity and addresses a depressed spectator whose memory and perceptual faculties are impaired. Drawing from the fields of psychoanalysis as well as psychiatry, Ross demonstrates the ways in which a body of art appropriates a symptomatic language of depression to enact disengagement - marked by withdrawl, radical protection of the self from the other, distancing signals, isolation, communication ruptures, and perceptual insufficiency. Most important, Ross reveals the ways in which art transforms disengagement into a visual strategy of disclosure, a means of reaching the viewer, and how in this way contemporary art puts forth a new understanding of depression.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 maart 2006

Aantal pagina's: 264

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Christine Ross

Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Minnesota Press

Originele titel: The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression

Editie: Annotated ed

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 177 mm

Product hoogte: 22 mm

Product lengte: 254 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 254 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm

Verpakking lengte: 254 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 494 g

EAN: 9780816645398

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