Report Abuse

PDF Details

Contact Information

Public

Performativitet

CC BY-NC-ND

What does performativity signify? And what does it mean to speak of something as being performative? Aiming to clarify and critically highlight an important but sometimes elusive concept, this book consists of five chapters, each addressing a concrete situation of interpretation. By highlighting artworks and images from different historical periods and contexts, the authors show how performativity might be a versatile and useful concept for interpretations of images. The purpose is to convey the critical potential of the concept as it is activated in relation to different objects of study. The book is primarily addressed to students of art history and others who take an interest in questions of visuality and visual practices. Offering not only a theoretical understanding of the concept, it strives to point out ways and possibilities of the practical use of performativity. This book constitutes the first volume of Theoretical Applications in Art History, which forms part of the series Basic Readings in Culture and Aesthetics. Its editors, Malin Hedlin Hayden and Mrten Snickare, are professors of art history at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. *** This book is in Swedish: Vad betyder performativitet? Och vad innebr det att tala om ngot som performativt? Den hr lroboken vill klargra och kritiskt belysa ett viktigt men ibland svrfngat begrepp. Bokens bidrag tar upp konkreta tolkningssituationer och visar p direkta tillmpningar av begreppet. Genom att lyfta fram konstverk och andra bilder frn olika historiska perioder och sammanhang visar vi hur performativitet r ett mngsidigt och anvndbart begrepp vid bildtolkning. Syftet r att frmedla den kritiska potential ett begrepp har nr det aktiveras i relation till olika studieobjekt. Boken riktar sig i frsta hand till studenter i konstvetenskap och andra mnen dr frgor om visualitet och visuella praktiker r centrala. Utgngspunkten r att boken inte bara ska ge en teoretisk frstelse av begreppet utan framfrallt peka ut vgar och mjligheter till praktisk tillmpning. Det hr r frsta volymen i Teoretiska tillmpningar i konstvetenskap, som ingr i serien Basic Readings in Culture and Aesthetics. Redaktrer fr boken r Malin Hedlin Hayden och Mrten Snickare, professorer i konstvetenskap p Institutionen fr kultur och estetik vid Stockholms universitet.

PDF document image preview