Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic Painting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4456206 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy M Schmitter (0000-0002-8753-064X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 399 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3654315 |
| OpenAlex | W1965425308, W4248166064 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
It seems natural, even obvious, to distinguish between representations and what they are representations of. A picture of a dog is no more a dog than the word "dog" is a furry, tail-wagging mammal. Nor are properties belonging to the object of a representation necessarily properties of the representation: a picture of a big dog need not be big, a picture of a dog that resembles Fido need not resemble Fido; even a picture of brown Fido need not be brown. And no number of pictures of Fido will sympathetically induce changes in Fido or any other dog. But however clear-cut this distinction may be when what is in question are pictorial references to ordinary, middle-sized material particulars such as dogs, it is much less clear in other cases. It is no violation of common-sense to consider "representations" of such things as gender norms or national identities or selves as non-neutral in the face of what they represent. The representations of gender norms, for example, can extend and enforce them, can change or undermine them, and may well lend a hand in constituting them in the first place
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cognitive science · Face (sociological concept) · Linguistics · Natural (archaeology) · Object (grammar) · Painting · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Representation (politics) · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2021 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |