{"product_id":"seeing-differently-1","title":"Seeing Differently","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeeing Differently\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e 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\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, \u003cem\u003eSeeing Differently\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cp\u003eUltimately, \u003cem\u003eSeeing Differently\u003c\/em\u003e 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":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54259060965720,"sku":"9780415543828","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415543828_aa304671-3d8d-4aa8-8e3a-c12e7f3d4e7b.jpg?v=1779178551","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/seeing-differently-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}