Rethinking Art and Visual Culture

The Poetics of Opacity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad, Asbjørn Skarsvag Grønstad, Asbjørn Skarsvåg

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-30
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt388 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor196
Upplaga20001
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030461751

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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.

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Devotion to Transparency Versus Virtues of Opacity.- Chapter 2 - On the Concept of Opacity in Art and Theory.- Chapter 3 - Boundaries of Discernibility: Ernie Gehr.- Chapter 4 - Archival Ghosts, or the Elsewhere of the Image: John Akomfrah.- Chapter 5 - The Shape of the Secret: Matt Saunders.- Chapter 6 - And Dark Within: David Lynch.- Chapter 7 - A Hermeneutics of the Black Site: Trevor Paglen.- Chapter 8 - Faceless, Nameless: Zach Blas.- Chapter 9- Sublime Static: Low.- Afterword.