Visual Art and Self-Construction Paperback - 2023

Name: Visual Art and Self-Construction
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Author: Katrina Mitcheson
ISBN: 9781399511186

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From the publisher

Starting from Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault's criticisms of a simple, given self, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self. Critically examining Ricoeur's narrative account of self-construction, Mitcheson makes the case that the narrative model overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. She develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self: exploring how visual art can operate as a critical technology of the self. Art not only exposes practices that contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore and affect bodily processes, enabling experimentation in self-construction.

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Demonstrates how visual art can work as a powerful technology of the self Starting from criticisms of a simple, given self, found in Nietzsche, Freud, and Foucault, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self. Critically examining Ricoeur's narrative account of self-construction, Mitcheson makes the case that narrative as a model of self-construction overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. Drawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, this study develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self. Diverse examples are explored of how visual art can operate not only as a critical technology of the self, exposing practices which contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore, and affect bodily processes, thereby enabling experimentation in self-construction.

Details

Title Visual Art and Self-Construction
Author Katrina Mitcheson
Binding Paperback
Pages 176
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Publication date 2023-02-06
ISBN 9781399511186 / 1399511181
Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.37 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 0.94 cm)
Category Philosophy

About the author

Katrina Mitcheson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England. She is the author of Nietzsche, Truth and Transformation (Palgrave, 2013).