Crossmappings: On Visual Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788311076)

The great, influential cultural critic, Elisabeth Bronfen, sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema and visual culture. The crossmappings facilitated in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between the body and its visual 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 from one historical moment to another, but also from one medium to another. Many prominent artists are discussed during these journeys into the cultural imaginary, include Degas, Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman, Paul McCarthy, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Wagner, Picasso, and Shakespeare, as well as classic Hollywood's film noir and melodrama and the TV series, The Wire and House of Cards.

Author: Elisabeth Bronfen
ISBN-10: 1788311078
ISBN-13: 9781788311076
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2018
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2019