02398nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10649254 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 121221s2012 gw a sb 101 0 eng d 2012044395 9783110285376 (acid-free paper) 9783110285444 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)828738610 K487.A3 V57 2012eb 340/.115 23 Visualizing law and authority [electronic resource] : essays on legal aesthetics / edited by Leif Dahlberg. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012. vi, 304 p. : ill. Law & Literature, 2191-8457 ; v. 4 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. pt. 1. Towards a legal aesthetics -- pt. 2. Images of law and authority -- pt. 3. Law and authority in art -- pt. 4. The authority of the image in law. "The volume "Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics" brings together revised papers from the international conference "Law and the Image", held in Stockholm, 24-25 September, 2010. The participants/contributors belong to the disciplines of Art history, Cultural studies, Literary and Media studies, and Law. The contributions discuss the complex relations between law, media and visual phenomena. The common theme of the essays consists in an examination of the scopic field and of regimes of visibility in phenomenological terms, arguing that law constitutes a cognitive and aesthetic field of normative world-making. Rather than merely inverting Shelley's dictum that the "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world", the essays argue in different ways for the necessity to develop a legal aesthetics"-- Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Law and aesthetics Congresses. Law and literature Congresses. Electronic books. local Dahlberg, Leif, 1962- ebrary, Inc. Law & literature (De Gruyter) ; v. 4. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10649254 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 45323 45323