Overview

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.

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Author:   Desmond Manderson
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9781442630314

ISBN 10:   1442630310
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   02 May 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: From Visual Evidence to Visual Discourse Desmond Manderson Part I  Representations. The origins of legal modernity from the 16th – 19th Centuries 1. Blindness Visible: Law, Time, and Bruegel's Justice Desmond Manderson 2. Face and Frames of Government Peter Goodrich 3. An Emblematic Representation of Law: Hogarth and the Engravers' Act Cristina S. Martinez 4. Law and the Revolutionary Motif after Jacques-Louis David Morgan Thomas 5. Legal Imagery on the Edge of Symbolism: The Decoration Projects for the Belgian Cour de Cassation Stefan Huygebaert 6. The Visual Force of Justice in the Making of Liberia Shane Chalmers Part II  Technologies. Excesses of legal modernity in the 20th Century 7. 'You Will See My Family Became So American': Race, Citizenship and the Visual Archive Sherally Munshi 8. From Sentimentality to Sadism: Visual Genres of Asylum Seeking Honni Van Rijswijk 9. Images of Victims: The ECCC and the Cambodian Genocide Museum Maria Elander 10. The Exceptional Image: Torture Photographs from Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib as Foucault's Spectacle of Punishment Connal Parsley Part III Critique: Irony and legal modernity in the 21st Century 11. T-Shirt's Guevara: The Visual Jurisprudence of the New Man Luis Gómez Romero 12. The Art of Bureaucracy: Redacted Ready-mades Katherine Biber 13. Illicit Interventions in Public Non-Spaces: Unlicensed Images Alison Young What Authorizes the Image? The Visual Economy of Post-Secular Jurisprudence Richard K. Sherwin

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"""Desmond Manderson's Law and the Visual marks a significant development in visual studies of law. Manderson moves readers across centuries, cultural contexts, and visual media. There is nothing like this book!""--Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College ""In seeking to address the various themes within the emerging body of scholarship on law and visual studies, Desmond Manderson brings together cutting-edge scholarship from both established and up-and-coming scholars.""--Adam Gearey, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London"

Desmond Manderson's Law and the Visual marks a significant development in visual studies of law. Manderson moves readers across centuries, cultural contexts, and visual media. There is nothing like this book! - Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College In seeking to address the various themes within the emerging body of scholarship on law and visual studies, Desmond Manderson brings together cutting-edge scholarship from both established and up-and-coming scholars. - Adam Gearey, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London

Author Information

Desmond Manderson is a professor in the ANU College of Law and College of Arts & Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is founding Director of its Centre for Law, Arts, and the Humanities.

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