Danse Macabre

The visual arts offer refreshing and novel resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This vibrantly interdisciplinary book brings the burgeoning field to a new maturity through extended close readings of major works by artists from Pieter Bruegel and Gustav Klimt to Gordon Bennett and Rafael Cauduro. At each point, the author puts these works of art into a complex dance with legal and social history, and with recent developments in legal and art theory. Manderson uses the idea of time and temporality as a focal point through which to explore how the work of art engages with and constitutes law and human lives. In the symmetries and asymmetries caused by the vibrating harmonic resonances of these triple forces - time, law, art - lies a way of not only understanding the world, but also transforming it.

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dance · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Ideology · Macabre · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Temporality · The arts · Visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy

• Film and Constitutional Controversy

  Open Access•Marco Wan•Film and Constitutional Controversy•2021

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• Love in the Time of Covid

  Open Access•Jeanne L Schroeder•Legalities•2022

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• Rethinking legal time

  Open Access•Veronica Pecile•Oñati Socio-legal Series•2023

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• First French-Australian Online Conference Series on Surveillance and the Humanities

  Centre Bentham•Revue d’études benthamiennes•2020

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• New (Post-?) Textualities and the Autonomy Claim

  Open Access•Brisa Paim Duarte•International Journal for the…•2022

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• Worldmaking, Legal Education, and the Saga Comic Book Series

  Open Access•Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça•International Journal for the…•2022

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• Queer Temporalities and Transgender Rights

  Open Access•Marco Wan•Social & Legal Studies•2020

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• Narratives of Justice and Power

  Open Access•Tasneem Sultana, Kiran Mamgain et al.•ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and…•2026

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• Subjects of Law, Objects of Gaze

  Open Access•Guglielmo Siniscalchi•International Journal for the…•2026

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• Native dignity

  Shane Chalmers•Griffith Law Review•2020

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• The festival as constitutional event and as jurisdictional encounter

  Shane Chalmers•Griffith Law Review•2021

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• The Poetics and Politics of Custom

  Maks Del Mar, Maksymilian Del Mar•Poetics Today•2021

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• The Poetics of Sensibility

  Jerome Mcgann•The poetics of sensibility•1996

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• Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004

  Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis et al.•Agamemnon in Performance•2005

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• Psychoanalysis and the Image

  G Pollock, Griselda Pollock•Psychoanalysis and the Image•2006

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• Constitutional Theory

  Carl Schmitt, Jeffrey Seitzer•Constitutional Theory•2008

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• Australia and the Insular Imagination

  Perera, Suvendrini Perera•Australia and the Insular…•2009

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• Problematic Shores

  Diana Loxley•Problematic Shores•1990

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• James Macpherson

  James Macpherson, Hugh Blair et al.•The poems of Ossian and related…•1996

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• The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament

  Open Access•Thomas Clarkson•History of the Rise, Progress,…•2010

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• Dark threats and white knights

  Sherene Razack•Dark threats and white knights•2004

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• Politics Most Unusual

  Open Access•Damian Cox, Michael Levine et al.•Politics Most Unusual•2009

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• How We Think

  N Katherine Hayles•How We Think•2012

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• Anachronic Renaissance

  Alexander Nagel, Corinne Shear Wood et al.•Anachronic Renaissance•2010

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• On Beauty and Being Just

  Elaine Scarry•On Beauty and Being Just•1999

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• The Rhetoric of Reaction

  Albert O Hirschman•Rhetoric of Reaction•1991

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• Modernism and the Grounds of Law

  Open Access•Peter Fitzpatrick•Modernism and the Grounds of Law•2001

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• The Burden of Representation

  Open Access•John Tagg•Burden of Representation•1988

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• The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

  Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem et al.•The Correspondence of Walter…•1994

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• Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness

  Open Access•Lawrence E Klein•Shaftesbury and the Culture of…•1994

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• Art and Answerability

  M M Bakhtin, Kenneth Brostrom et al.•Art and Answerability•1990

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• Making People Illegal

  Open Access•Catherine Dauvergne•Making People Illegal•2008

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• The Mythology of Modern Law

  Peter Fitzpatrick•The Mythology of Modern Law•1992

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• The Impartial Spectator

  D D Raphael•IMPARTIAL SPECTATOR: ADAM SMITH'S…•2007

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• The Expanding Spaces of Law

  Alexandre Kedar, I Braverman et al.•The Expanding Spaces of Law•2014

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• Celebrity Humanitarianism

  Ilan Kapoor•Celebrity humanitarianism•2012

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• Iconology

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell et al.•Iconology•1986

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• The Right to Look

  Open Access•N Mirzoeff•Right to Look•2011

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• Empathic Vision

  Jill Bennett•Empathic Vision•2005

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• Chronotopes of Law

  Mariana Valverde•Chronotopes of Law•2015

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• Specters of the Atlantic

  Open Access•Ian Baucom•Specters of the Atlantic•2005

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• Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics

  Mikhail Bakhtin, M M Bakhtin et al.•Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics•1984

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• Psychoanalysis and Cinema

  Open Access•Christian Metz, Celia Britton•Psychoanalysis and Cinema•1982

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• The Truth in Painting

  Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington et al.•The Truth in Painting•1987

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• Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture

  Karen Halttunen•The American Historical Review•1995

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• The cartographic eye

  Simon Ryan•The cartographic eye•1996

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• Sensational designs

  Jane P Tompkins•Sensational designs•1985

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• Fantasy and Irony in Peter Bruegel's Prints

  Howard McParlin Davis•The Metropolitan Museum of Art…•1943

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• The Coupling of Art and Government

  Open Access•Jay Younger•The International Journal of the…•2012

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• Speculum Sermonis

  Georgiana Donavin, Cary Nederman et al.•Speculum sermonis•2004

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• Innovation and Renewal

  Agnes G Raymond, Diderot Diderot et al.•The Modern Language Review•1991

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• Sebastian Brant

  Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier, Kathleen Wilson‐Chevalier•The Art Bulletin•1996

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• Broken Tablets

  Jonathan P Ribner•Broken Tablets•1993

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• The Sublime

  Open Access•Andrew Ashfield, Peter De Bolla•Sublime•1996

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• Paris 1937

  James D Herbert•Paris 1937•1998

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• Studies in the Eighteenth Century

  John H Middendorf, R F Brissenden•The American Historical Review•1975

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• More's Utopia

  Franklin L Baumer, J H Hexter•The American Historical Review•1953

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• The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

  Ernst Cassirer, Charles W Hendel et al.•The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms•2021

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• Giving Injustice Its Due

  Judith Shklar, Judith N Shklar•The Yale Law Journal•1989

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• The Theodicy of Aeschylus

  Open Access•David Cohen•Greece and Rome•1986

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• Transcendental Deconstruction, Transcendent Justice

  Jack M Balkin•Michigan Law Review•1994

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• Writing and Difference

  Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass•Writing and Difference•2001

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• The Saxon Mirror

  Maria Dobozy•Saxon Mirror•1999

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• What Is Positive Law?

  Philippe Nonet•The Yale Law Journal•1990

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• Essays in Political Philosophy

  Open Access•CRAHAM MCFEE•Philosophical Books•1991

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• Bruegel's Festive Peasants

  Svetlana Alpers•Simiolus Netherlands Quarterly…•1972

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• Philosophical Imaginary

  Michèle Le Dœuff•Philosophical Imaginary•1989

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• Cultural relativism and the visual turn

  Open Access•Martin Jay•Journal of Visual Culture•2002

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• The Dialogic Imagination

  Peter West Nutting, M M Bakhtin et al.•The German Quarterly•1983

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• Die Heidelberger Bilderhandschrift des Sachsenspiegels

  George W Radimersky, Walter Koschorreck•The German Quarterly•1973

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• Literature in the Light of the Emblem, Structural Parallels between the Emblem and Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

  Richard E Schade, Peter M Daly et al.•The German Quarterly•2000

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• Asylum–Seekers and National Histories of Detention

  Open Access•Alison Bashford, Carolyn Strange•Australian Journal of Politics &…•2002

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• Aeschylus' Oresteia

  D J Conacher•Aeschylus' Oresteia•1987

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• Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment

  Thalia Anthony•Indigenous People, Crime and…•2013

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• Pilate and Jesus

  Adam Kotsko, Giorgio Agamben•Pilate and Jesus•2020

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• Foucault in an Age of Terror

  Open Access•Stephen Morton, Stephen Bygrave•Foucault in an Age of Terror•2008

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• Iconoclash

  Keith Moxey, Bruno Latour et al.•The Art Bulletin•2003

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• An Introduction to Visual Culture

  N Mirzoeff•An Introduction to Visual Culture•2023

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• Transitional objects and transitional phenomena 1 —a study of the first not-me possession 2

  Donald W Winnicott•2018

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• The Torture Papers

  Open Access•Anthony Lewis, Karen J Greenberg et al.•The torture papers•2005

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• The Rights of Refugees under International Law

  Open Access•James C Hathaway•Rights of Refugees under…•2005

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• The Differentiation of Society

  N Luhmann, Charles Larmore et al.•Differentiation of Society•1982

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• The Ideological Origins of the British Empire

  Open Access•David Armitage•Ideological Origins of the…•2000

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• Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision

  David Michael Levin•Modernity and the Hegemony of…•1994

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• The Spirit and the Dove

  Open Access•Leander E Keck•New Testament Studies•1970

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• The Image and the Unconscious

  Open Access•Nancy C Panagiotou, Anees A Sheikh•International Journal of Social…•1977

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• Interpretation without Representation, or, the Viewing of Las Meninas

  Svetlana Alpers•Representations•1983

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• The Order of Things

  Michel Foucault•The Order of Things•2018

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• The Rules of Art

  Pierre Bourdieu•The Rules of Art•1996

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• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

  Carlo Ginzburg, Anne C Tedeschi et al.•Clues Myths And The Historical…•2013

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• Law and disorder in the postcolony

  Open Access•Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff•Social Anthropology•2007

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• The Post Card

  Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass•The post card•1987

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• Homo Sacer

  Giorgio Agamben•Homo Sacer•2020

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• Recent Literature on Diego Rivera and Mexican Muralism

  Open Access•David Craven•Latin American Research Review•2001

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• Ut Pictura Poesis... A History of the Topos and the Problem

  Henryk Markiewicz, Uliana Gabara•New Literary History•1987

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• War and Photography

  Andrea Noble•Hispanic Research Journal•2000

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• Religion, Law, and the Growth of Constitutional thought, 1150-1650

  Diane Parkin-Speer•Sixteenth Century Journal•1983

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• The Triptychs of Hieronymus Bosch

  Lynn F Jacobs•Sixteenth Century Journal•2000

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• The Origin of German Tragic Drama

  R J Alexander, Walter Benjamin et al.•German Studies Review•1978

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• The Tendency Toward Platonism in Neo-Classical Esthetics

  Louis I Bredvold•ELH•1934

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• "Suggestions Toward A Genealogy of the "Man of Feeling

  R S Crane•ELH•1934

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• Painting and the Politics of Culture

  Andrew Hemingway, John Barrell•Eighteenth-Century Studies•1993

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• Reynolds, Garrick, and the Choice of Hercules

  David Mannings•Eighteenth-Century Studies•1984

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• Sensibility

  Claudia L Johnson, Janet Todd•Eighteenth-Century Studies•1988

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• Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art

  Open Access•Eric Shanes•The Art Book•1994

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• The truth in painting

  Open Access•K Anker, Kathrine Elizabeth Anker•Law/text/culture•2005

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• Gordon Bennett's Home Decor

  Open Access•I Mclean, Ian S Mclean•Law/text/culture•1998

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• A Cultural History of Gesture

  Ann Daly, Ann K Daly et al.•TDR/The Drama Review•1995

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• Do Loose Lips Bring Ships

  Mary Crock, Daniel Ghezelbash•Griffith Law Review•2010

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• Sounds of Revelation

  Open Access•Ruth Hacohen•Modernist Cultures•2005

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• Benjamin Duterrau

  G Lehman•Journal of War and Culture Studies•2015

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• Visual justice

  Open Access•Leslie J Moran•International Journal of Law in…•2012

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