Danse Macabre - Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts

A revolutionary approach exploring legal themes such as justice, legitimacy, sovereignty, and power through close readings of major works of art.

List of contents

Foreword; 1. Bruegel's 'Justice': anachronic time; 2. Reynolds's justice, Blackstone's laws: diachronic time; 3. Governor Arthur's proclamation: utopian time; 4. Turner's 'Slave Ship': now time; 5. Klimt's 'Jurisprudence': suspended time; 6. Bennett's laws: colonial time; 7. Cauduro's crimes: ectoplasmic time; Afterword.

About the author

Desmond Manderson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor in the Australian National University, Canberra College of Law and the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is the author of several books including Songs without Music (2000), Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law (2012), and Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, and Critique (2017).

Summary

The visual arts offer wholly new resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This interdisciplinary book includes exceptional close readings of major works by artists from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century informed by legal and social history, and by recent developments in legal and art theory.

Product details

• Authors: Desmond Manderson, Desmond (Australian National University Manderson, Manderson Desmond
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107158665
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15866-5
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 233 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law; The arts: general issues, LAW / General, ART / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social Law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Social law and Medical law, The arts: general topics