{"product_id":"9780415543835","title":"Seeing Differently : A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a \"world picture\" expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view, to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is both a history of these ideas (for example, tracing the dominance of a binary model of self and other from Hegel through classic 1970s identity politics) and a political response to the common claim in art and popular political discourse that we are \"beyond\" or \"post-\" identity. In challenging this latter claim, Seeing Differently critically examines how and why we \"identify\" works of art with an expressive subjectivity, noting the impossibility of claiming we are \"post-identity\" given the persistence of beliefs in art discourse and broader visual culture about who the subject \"is,\" and offers a new theory of how to think this kind of identification in a more thoughtful and self-reflexive way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately, Seeing Differently offers a mode of thinking identification as a \"queer feminist durational\" process that can never be fully resolved but must be accounted for in thinking about art and visual culture. Queer feminist durationality is a mode of relational interpretation that affects both \"art\" and \"interpreter,\" potentially making us more aware of how we evaluate and give value to art and other kinds of visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49639018791160,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":101.81,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780415543835-1.jpg?v=1783594414","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780415543835","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}