{"product_id":"visual-art-and-self-construction","title":"Visual Art and Self-Construction","description":"Demonstrates how visual art can work as a powerful technology of the self\n\nAsks how we can know a decentred and partly unconscious self, and shows how particular artworks can help us to address this challenge\nIllustrates how both artists and audience members can use artworks as a means of cultivating or controlling specific aspects of the self\nDraws on the work of artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois\nDemonstrates the specific contribution that visual art makes to projects of the self by discussing a variety of mediums and contemporary developments in artistic practice\n\nStarting 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.\n\nCritically 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.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54198037872984,"sku":null,"price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781399511186.jpg?v=1782822631","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/visual-art-and-self-construction","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}