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self
self-cultivation
self-image
self-knowledge
self-transformation
selfhood
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unconscious
visual arts
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- ISBN 9781399511186
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Demonstrates how visual art can work as a powerful technology of the self
Asks how we can know a decentred and partly unconscious self, and shows how particular artworks can help us to address this challenge
Illustrates how both artists and audience members can use artworks as a means of cultivating or controlling specific aspects of the self
Draws on the work of artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois
Demonstrates the specific contribution that visual art makes to projects of the self by discussing a variety of mediums and contemporary developments in artistic practice
Starting from criticisms of a simple, given self found in Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self.
Critically examining Ricoeur's narrative account of self-construction, Mitcheson makes the case that the narrative model overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. She develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self: exploring how visual art can operate as a critical technology of the self. Art not only exposes practices that contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore and affect bodily processes, enabling experimentation in self-construction.
Katrina Mitcheson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England. She is the author of Nietzsche, Truth and Transformation (Palgrave, 2013).
