Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, Critique

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In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual culture as witnessed from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Editor Desmond Manderson provides a contextual introduction that draws out and articulates three central themes: visual representations of the law, visual technologies in the law, and aesthetic critiques of law. A ground breaking contribution to an increasingly vibrant field of inquiry, Law and the Visual will inform the debate on the relationship between legal and visual culture for years to come. Cover Copyright Contents Introduction: Imaginal Law Part One: Representations – The Origins of LegalModernity from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries 1: Blindness Visible: Law, Time, and Bruegel’s Justice 2: Faces and Frames of Government 3: An Emblematic Representation of Law: Hogarth and the Engravers’ Act 4: Law and the Revolutionary Motif after Jacques-Louis David 5: Legal Imagery on the Edge of Symbolism: The Decoration Projects for the Belgian Cour de Cassation 6: The Visual Force of Justice in the Making of Liberia Part Two: Technologies – Excesses of Legal Modernity in the Twentieth Century 7: “You Will See My Family Became So American”: Race, Citizenship, and the Visual Archive 8: From Sentimentality to Sadism: Visual Genres of Asylum Seeking 9: Images of Victims: The ECCC and the Cambodian Genocide Museum 10: The Exceptional Image: Torture Photographs from Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib as Foucault’s Spectacle of Punishment Part Three: Critique – Irony and Legal Modernity in the Twenty-First Century 11: T-Shirt’s Guevara: The Visual Jurisprudence of the New Man 12: The Art of Bureaucracy: Redacted Ready-mades 13: Illicit Interventions in Public Non-Spaces: Unlicensed Images 14: What Authorizes the Image? The Visual Economy of Post-Secular Jurisprudence Contributors Index