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Title

Photography between poetry and politics : the critical position of the photographic medium in contemporary art / edited by Hilde van Gelder and Helen Westgeest.

Publication

[Leuven, Belgium] : Leuven University Press ; [Ithaca, N.Y.] : Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Gelder, Hilde van
• Westgeest, Helen, 1958-
• Association of Art Historians (Great Britain). Conference (2007 : Belfast, Nothern Ireland)

Description

xv, 188 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Summary

"This book examines a recurrent question in recent literature on the use of the photographic medium in contemporary art. It is concerned with the multiformity of ways the photograph manifests itself in diverse artistic practices today and with the consequences of this situation for photography's critical potential. Central to this discussion is the question whether photography has a hybrid or chameleonic character because it can be part of entirely different mixed-media works of art. Furthermore, issues are raised such as if the photo-image nowadays mainly serves as a useful tool to make a renewed kind of 'tableau', often marked by a rather noncommittal and 'poetic' visual imagery. When photographic practices aim at raising a critical debate on the internal workings of the artistic system itself or on broader social problems, is the photograph then able to distinguish itself from a merely 'political' statement or a pamphlet? A distinguished variety of authors, all specialists in the field of contemporary photography, offer their viewpoints on this debate."--book jacket.

Series Statement

Lieven Gevaert series ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Lieven Gevaert series v. 7.

Subject

• Photography, Artistic > Congresses
• Photography > Congresses
• Fotografie
• Multimedia
• Beeldende kunsten
• Politieke aspecten
• Estética fotográfica

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "This book is the outcome of a very fruitful one-day long discussion between all of its authors. The debate was held on the occasion of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, which took place at the University of Ulster in Belfast (12-14 April 2007)."--P. ix.
• "NUR: 652"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1. The multimedia context as indicator of poetry and politics in photography -- The changeability of photography in multimedia artworks / Helen Westgeest -- The medium as ghost : politics and poetics in Peter Kennedy's work / Anne Marsh -- 'The ambiguous multiple-entendre' (Baldessari) : multimedia art as rebus / Alexander Streitberger -- Part 2. Processes of (re)construction, (re)production, and (re)presentation in photography, in relation to reception and memory -- Can photographs make it so? : several outbreaks of VALIE EXPORT'S Genital panic, 1969-2005 / Mechtild Widrich -- Jeff Wall's cinematography and the proximity of the photograph / Cliff Lauson -- What photographs don't know / Susan Laxton -- Part 3. Photography as means of communication about social and political issues and the role of the art institutions -- Picturing the Oslo process : photography, painting and the belated occupation / Simon Faulkner -- Recognizing the unrecognized : the photographs of Ahlam Shibli / T.J. Demos -- Changing places : the rebranding of photography as contemporary art / Alexandra Moschovi.

ISBN

• 9789058676641
• 9058676641

LCCN

^^2008390581

OCLC

228371704

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library