Crossmappings : On Visual Culture, Paperback / softback Book

Crossmappings : On Visual Culture Paperback / softback

Part of the New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts series

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The influential cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema, and visual culture.

The crossmappings in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between the body and its representability, the gendering of war, death and the fragility of life, as well as sovereignty and political power. Each chapter tracks transformations that occur as aesthetic figurations travel not only from one historical moment to the next, but also from one medium to another.

Following Bronfen on these journeys into the cultural imaginary, the reader encounters prominent artists such as Edgar Degas, Francesca Woodman, Paul McCarthy, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso and William Shakespeare, alongside Classical Hollywood's film noir and melodrama, and the TV series The Wire and House of Cards.

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