Art Beyond Representation
The Performative Power of the Image
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5006166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katerina Bantinaki (University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 213-216 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayj028 |
| OpenAlex | W2044148389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image. By BARBARA BOLT. I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. 2004. pp. x + 209. 2 b & w illustrations. £49.50 (hbk), £18.99 (pbk). THE NOTION of representation has occupied a dominant place in the analysis of art, be it in the context of imitation theory, or as the key notion of theories of art falling under the semiotic paradigm. In Art Beyond Representation Barbara Bolt aims to challenge that dominance. While acknowledging that representation is central to the practice of art, she sets out to show that art is much more than a representational activity. Focusing especially on visual art, she attempts to highlight the performative relation between imaging and reality, a relation of mutual reflection that, according to the author, has the potential to produce ontological effects. The notion of representation that Bolt is targeting in her analysis finds its roots in Martin Heidegger's work on art and technology. Representation is there explained as a model (material or theoretic) by means of which subjects organize the world in order to set it forth as an object of investigation. Representation is thus regarded as the vehicle of an enframing mode of thought that has largely been dominant in the Western world. As a form of pre-conception, representation has, according to Bolt, served modern man's will to fixity and mastery over the world. This attitude is contrasted with a pre-Platonic relation to the world, where subjects were open and vulnerable to a reality that confronted them—a reality that was presence rather than representation
Aesthetics · Art · Computer vision · Image (mathematics · Performative utterance · Physics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Representation (politics · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |