Emptiness of the Image
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Author_Parveen Adams
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Caviare Sandwich
complex
contemporary art theory
Courtly Love
Deep Reds
Deutsch's Argument
difference
Enunciative Level
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feminist psychoanalytic image analysis
feminist visual culture
gendered gaze
graces
Head VI
Hysterical Identification
Interim Part
Knight Errant
lacan
Lesbian Sadomasochist
metaphor
Objet Petit
oedipal
Oil On Canvas
Paternal Phallus
Perverse Scenario
phallic
Phallic Identification
Phallic Metaphor
Phallic Model
psychoanalytic art criticism
representation of women
Seminar XI
sexual
Smoked Salmon
spectatorship theory
three
Transference Love
Turbinate Bones
Van Alphen
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415046213
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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There has long been a politics around the way in which women are represented, with objection not so much to specific images as to a regime of looking which places the represented woman in a particular relationship to the spectator's gaze. Artists have sometimes avoided the representation of women altogether, but they are now producing images which challenge the regime. How do these images succeed in their challenge ?
The Emptiness of the Image offers a psychoanalytic answer. Parveen Adams argues that, despite flaws in some of the details of its arguments, psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. She goes on to show how the issue of desire changes the way we can think of images and their effects. Throughout she discusses the work of theorists, artists and filmmakers such as Helene Deutsch, Catherine MacKinnon, Mary Kelly, Francis Bacon, Michael Powell and Della Grace.
The Emptiness of the Image shows how the very space of representation can change to provide a new way of thinking the relation between the text and the spectator. It shows how psychoanalytic theory is supple enough to slide into and transform the most unexpected situations.
