Crossmappings : on visual culture / Elisabeth Bronfen.

"An earlier version of this collection of essays with graphic design by Bruno Margreth appeared in German with Scheidegger & Spiess in 2009."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-382) and index.

Introduction: Crossmappings -- visual readings as a critical intervention in the cultural imaginary -- Part I. Travelling image formulas -- 1. Facing defacement: Degas' portraits of women -- 2. Naked touch: disfiguration, recognition and the female nude -- 3. Leaving an imprint: Francesca Woodman's photographic tableaux vivants -- 4. Pop cinema: Hollywood's critical engagement with America's culture of consumption -- 5. Hitler goes pop: totalitarianism, avant-garde aesthetics and Hollywood entertainment -- 6. Simulations of the real: Paul McCarthy's performance disasters -- 7. Wagner's Isolde in Hollywood -- 8. Shakespeare's wire -- 9. Queen of chess: on serial reading -- Part II. Gendering the uncanny, imagining death -- 10. The horror of the familiar: Freud's thoughts on femininity and the uncanny -- 11. Gendering curiosity: the double games of Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster and Sophie Calle -- 12. The other self of the imagination: Cindy Sherman's hysterical performance -- 13. Eva Hesse's spectral bride and her uncanny double -- 14. Wounds of wonder: Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Nabuyoshi Araki -- 15. The fragility of the quotidian: Eija-Liisa Ahtila's work with death -- 16. Picasso's war women -- 17. Contending with the father: Louise Bourgeois and her aesthetics of reparation.

"The 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."-- Dust jacket flap

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