Visual Art and Self-Construction

Mitcheson, Katrina

Abstract

Critically examining Ricoeur’s narrative account of self-construction, this book makes the case that the narrative model overlooks the variety of processes that can contribute to forming a self and neglects the materiality of these processes. Visual Art and Self-Construction develops an alternative account of a plural and corporeal hermeneutics of the self: exploring how visual art can operate as a critical technology of the self. Art not only exposes practices that contribute to our subjugation, but can also discover, explore and affect bodily processes, enabling experimentation in self-construction.

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2021
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• ISBN: 9780748693672
• Keywords: Narrative Self, Ricoeur, Self-Construction, Visual Art, Self Image, Gender, Identity, Performance Art
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/854856
• Publisher URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-visual-art-and-self-construction.html