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In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture
Victor Burgin
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Description for In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture
Paperback. Explores the construction of identities in the psychical space between perception and consciousness, drawing upon psychoanalytic theories to describe the constitution and maintenance of 'self' and 'us' - in imaginary spatial and temporal relations to 'other' and 'them' - through the all-important relay of images. Num Pages: 329 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions that produce them, such as cinema, photography, advertising, and television, and more as hybrid mental constructs composed of fragments derived from the heterogeneous sources that together constitute the 'media'. Through deft analyses of a photograph by Helmut Newton, Parisian cityscapes, the space of the department store, a film by Ousmane Sembene, and the writings of ... Read more
Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions that produce them, such as cinema, photography, advertising, and television, and more as hybrid mental constructs composed of fragments derived from the heterogeneous sources that together constitute the 'media'. Through deft analyses of a photograph by Helmut Newton, Parisian cityscapes, the space of the department store, a film by Ousmane Sembene, and the writings of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
329
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
329
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520202993
SKU
V9780520202993
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