Bøger af Nicoletta Isar

Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rites Of Disimagination brings together scholars from art history and image theory, literary studies and philosophy. Chapters of this volume engage with the overarching theme of imagination as a pulsatile force embedded in words, images, and all imaginative modes of instantiation of the work of art in their elemental aspects, expressed in visual arts, and literature, as well as bodily schemata of choreographic and musical performances. The papers employ contrasting and complementing methods from literary studies and image theory, especially phenomenology and new materialism, such as G. Bachelard and M. Merleau-Ponty, G. Bataille, J. Kristeva, P. Lacoue-Labarthe and J. Sallis, G. Didi-Huberman, H. Belting and A. Warburg, J. Bennett and Jason M. Wirth, as well as performance studies. Chapters in this volume inquire into the imaginative forces that disrupt and disinhibit the traditional habits ofimagination to create pulsatile imaginaries, i.e., a dynamic process of "emergence-resurgence" of image manifested in the act of creation and in perception. This process does not properly imply a destruction of image, but rather a withdrawal of image from the realm of representation to give way to new images and new imaginative experiences. The newly coined term "rite of disimagination" points out to this operation, consecutively implying imagining and disimaging that both denies, as well as validates image - it valorizes matter. The affirmation of the materiality of image is "the re-incarnation of image."

Ansigter bryder frem af bivoks. Byer forgrener sig i ukendte verdener. Kroppe spirer, bliver til svampe, gror til med muslingeskaller. Bjørneklo, døde bier og medicinemballage blander sig med polystyren, bronze, gips og ler i de vildtvoksende kunstværker. Verden, som vi kender den, ophæves og sættes sammen på ny.Emil Westman Hertz (1978-2016) arbejdede som billedhugger, tegner, grafiker og fotograf. Ubesværet flettede han de forskellige udtryksformer ind og ud mellem hinanden til levende og bevægelige værker, vævet sammen i et univers af febervildelser og forestillingsverdener og båret af en stærk fortællekraft.Emil Westman Hertz. Altid forandret præsenterer den kompromisløse kunstner og hans særegne metoder og strategier. Med afsæt i blandt andet kunsthistorie, antropologi, økokritik og shamanisme tegner bogens forfattere for første gang et samlende billede af et altid foranderligt kunstnerskab.