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The Aesthetics of DisengagementContemporary Art and Depression
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Christine Ross

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than half of the world's population will have a depressive disorder at some point in their lifetimes. In The Aesthetics of Disengagement Christine Ross shows how contemporary art is a powerful yet largely unacknowledged player in the articulation of depression in Western culture, both adopting and challenging scientific definitions of t…

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9781452935584
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Art for CoexistenceUnlearning the Way We See Migration
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Christine Ross

In Art for Coexistence, art historian Christine Ross examines contemporary art's response to migration, showing that art invites us to abandon our preconceptions about the current "crisis"—to unlearn them—and to see migration more critically, more disobediently. Viewers in Europe and North America must come to see migration in terms of coexistence: the interdependence of beings. The artwork…

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Precarious VisualitiesNew Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art …
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Olivier Asselin, Johanne Lamoureux, Christine Ross

Through the study of exemplary media works and practices - photography, film, video, performance, installations, web cams - scholars from various disciplines call attention to the unsettling of identification and the disablement of vision in contemporary aesthetics. To look at an image that prevents the stabilization of identification, identity and place; to perceive a representation that oscil…

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9780773578111
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1 online resource (448 pages)
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The Past is the Present; It's the Future TooThe Temporal Turn in Contemporary…
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Christine Ross

The term 'temporality' often refers to the traditional mode of the way time is: a linear procession of past, present and future. As philosophers will note, this is not always the case. Christine Ross builds on current philosophical and theoretical examinations of time and applies them to the field of contemporary art: films, video installations, sculpture and performance works. Ross first pro…

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9781441147745
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1 online resource (360 pages)
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