VISUAL TRESPASSINGS: EXPLORATIONS OF THE LIMIT IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN VISUAL ARTS: SALLY MANN’S DEAD BODIES
VISUAL TRESPASSINGS: EXPLORATIONS OF THE LIMIT IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN VISUAL ARTS: SALLY MANN’S DEAD BODIES
Author(s): Ileana Botescu-SireţeanuSubject(s): Semiotics / Semiology, Visual Arts, Epistemology, Ontology
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: body; death; limit; representation; visual culture;
Summary/Abstract: Drawing on cultural studies, visual culture and semiotics, the present study investigates the particular ways in which contemporary visual arts approach the ontological issue of the limit, in a culture that has gradually and persistently blurred all limits to near erasure. In this sense, this study looks at American photographer Sally Mann's visual explorations of the body-as-flesh, as bold interrogations of cultural taboos, as well as innovative visual cues of ontological and epistemological transgression and inquiry.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 28/2022
- Issue No: 28
- Page Range: 241-248
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English