Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing

Asbjørn Grønstad, Henrik Gustafsson, Øyvind Vågnes

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Routledge
28 June 2018

Theory of art; Media studies

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent mediasphere where images – as lenses bearing on their own circumstances – are constantly mobilized to enact symbolic forms of warfare and where they get entangled in all kinds of cultural conflicts and controversies, a turn to the gestural life of images seems to promise a particularly pertinent avenue of intellectual inquiry. The complex gestures of the artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies. In visual art, the gestural appears to be that which intervenes between form and content, materiality and meaning. But as a conceptual force it also impinges upon the very process of seeing itself. As a critical and heuristic trope, the gestural galvanizes many of the most pertinent areas of inquiry in contemporary debates and scholarship in visual culture and related disciplines: ethics (images and their values and affects), aesthetics (from visual essentialism to transesthetics and synesthesia), ecology (iconoclastic gestures and spaces of conflict), and epistemology (questions of the archive, memory and documentation). Offering fresh perspectives on many of these areas, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing will be intensely awaited by readers from and across several disciplines, such as anthropology, linguistics, performance, theater, film and visual studies.

Edited by: Asbjørn Grønstad, Henrik Gustafsson, Øyvind Vågnes
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9781138319783
ISBN 10: 1138319783
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 28 June 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword: Offering a Light, Suspending Air (Pasi Väliaho) Introduction (Asbjørn Grønstad, Henrik Gustafsson and Øyvind Vågnes) 1. Retracing Movements: Gestures on Film (Ulrike Hanstein) 2. Gesturing the Image: The Chain-Linking of Gestures in Jean-Luc Godard’s Passion (Petra Löffler) 3. Cinematic Gestures between Henri Michaux and Joachim Koester (Jay Hetrick) 4. Voiceless: Gesture as Witness or the Un-image-able/Un-inagine-able (Mark Ledbetter) 5. Radical Gestures of Unfolding in Films by Mohamed Soueid and The Otolith Group (Laura U. Marks) 6. Gestures of Touch in Recent Video Art: Towards a New Haptic Mode (Susanne Ø. Sæther) 7. The Gesture of Drawing (Ernst van Alphen) 8. The Common Gesture: Drawing in Relation (Sara Schneckloth) 9. THE MAGNETIC: ’Apricot City A4’ and its Weak Gestures (Nermin Saybasili)

"Asbjørn Grønstad is professor of visual culture in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. He is founding director of Nomadikon: The Bergen Center for Visual Culture and author/editor of several books in film studies and visual culture. He is also founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture. His most recent book is Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (co-edited with Henrik Gustafsson, 2014). Henrik Gustafsson is Associate Professor of Media- and Documentation Science at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Recent publications include Cinema & Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (2014) and Ethics and Images of Pain (2012), both co-edited with Grønstad, and articles in History of Photography (February 2016) and Journal of Visual Culture (April 2013).　　 Øyvind Vågnes is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. Recent publications include ""Lessons from the Life of an Image: Malcolm Browne's Photograph of Thich Quang Duc's Self-Immolation"", in Frances Guerin, ed., On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture (London: Routledge, 2015), and Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture　(2011), which received honorable mention at the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence."

Reviews for Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing

"""Gesture is a concept that is fundamental to the creation and reception of visual images. Locating our understanding of status and function of the image at the intersection of subject and object, the authors in this volume offer us insight into the way both the invisible and visible dimensions of the image play a role in the creation of meaning. This book is crucial to anyone interested in the philosophical study of the image."" -- Keith Moxey, Barnard College, USA"