Carnal knowledge : towards a 'new materialism' through the arts / edited by Estelle Barrett and Barbara Bolt.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013.Description: xviii, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781780762661 (pbk.)
1780762666 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

701 BAR 23

LOC classification:

N70 .C28 2013

Contents:

Introduction : Toward a "new materialism" through the arts / Barbara Bolt -- From double navel to particle-sign : toward the A-signifying work of painting / Katve-Kaisa Kontturi -- Metaphors of the mind : art forms as modes of thinking and ways of being / Danielle Boutet -- Æffect : initiating heuristic life / Jondi Keane -- Materiality, affect, and the aesthetic image / Estelle Barrett -- The matter of film : Decasia and Lyrical nitrate / Nicholas Chare and Liz Watkins -- Recovering the hidden through found-footage films / Dirk de Bruyn -- Moments of affection : Jayce Salloum's everything and nothing and the thresholds of testimonal video / Ilona Hongisto -- In the name of the author : toward a materialist understanding of literary authorship / Kaisa Kurikka -- The sublime : process and mediation / Liza McCosh -- Fashion as an embodied art form / Lleywellyn Negrin -- Material-character animation : experiments in life-like translucency / Cathryn Vasseleu -- Instrumental vision / Rose Woodcodk -- Immaterial land / Brian Martin -- The primacy of movement : variation, intermediality and biopolitics in Tero Saarinen's Hunt / Milla Tiainen and Jussi Parikka.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	701 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100645200

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Carnal Knowledge is an outcome of the renewed energy and interest in moving beyond the discursive construction of reality to understand the relationship between what is conceived of as reality and materiality, described as the 'material turn'. It draws together established and emerging writers, whose research spans dance, music, film, fashion, design, photography, literature, painting and stereo-immersive VR, to demonstrate how art allows us to map the complex relations between nature and culture, between the body, language and knowledge. These writings are unique in the field because they represent the authors' commitment to a new materialism through the creative arts. The questions they address include: Does the material turn in the creative arts take a different turn from continental epistemology, philosophy and the humanities? How does the agency of matter, the material nature of artistic practice and the notion of 'truth to materials' affect what we understand as the 'new materialism'? In engaging with these questions the book offers perspectives on the emergence of this exciting fresh field of new materialism.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-255).

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Illustrations (p. vii)
Acknowledgements (p. ix)
Foreword (p. xi)
Notes on Contributors (p. xiii)
Introduction Toward a "New Materialism" Through the Arts (p. 1)
Discourse, Affect and Material Interventions (p. 15)
Chapter 1 From Double Navel to Particle-Sign: Toward the A-Signifying Work of Painting (p. 17)
Chapter 2 Metaphors of the Mind: Art Forms as Modes of Thinking and Ways of Being (p. 29)
Chapter 3 Æffect: Initiating Heuristic Life (p. 41)
Chapter 4 Materiality, Affect, and the Aesthetic Image (p. 63)
The Matter of Film (p. 73)
Chapter 5 The Matter of Film: Decasia and Lyrical Nitrate (p. 75)
Chapter 6 Recovering the Hidden through Found-Footage Films (p. 89)
Chapter 7 Moments of Affection: Jayce Salloum's everything and nothing and the Thresholds of Testimonial Video (p. 105)
Carnal Insistence (p. 113)
Chapter 8 In the Name of the Author: Toward a Materialist Understanding of Literary Authorship (p. 115)
Chapter 9 The Sublime: Process and Mediation (p. 127)
Materiality, The Virtual and the Real (p. 139)
Chapter 10 Fashion as an Embodied Art Form (p. 141)
Chapter 11 Material-Character Animation: Experiments in Life-Like Translucency (p. 155)
Chapter 12 Instrumental Vision (p. 171)
Chapter 13 Immaterial Land (p. 185)
Chapter 14 The Primacy of Movement: Variation, Intermediality and Biopolitics in Tero Saarinen's Hunt (p. 205)
Notes (p. 225)
References (p. 235)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Estelle Barrett is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Kristeva Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts (2011) and is co-editor, with Barbara Bolt, of Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (2007), both I.B. Tauris. Her reviews and articles have appeared in such publications as Text, Social Semiotics, Double Dialogues and the Journal of Visual Arts Practice.
Barbara Bolt is Associate Professor in the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne. She is a practising artist and art theorist. Her publications include Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image (2004) and Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts (2011), both I.B. Tauris. She is also co-editor of Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (I.B. Tauris, 2007) with Estelle Barrett, and of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (2007) with Felicity Coleman, Graham Jones and Ashley Woodward.