Visualizing Law and Authority - Essays on Legal Aesthetics

Introduction. Visualising Law and Authority

Part 1. Towards a Legal Aesthetics

“Iconic” Texts of Law and Religion: A Tale of Two Decalogues

Law Suits: Clothing as the Image of Law

Part 2. Images of Law and Authority

Law and the Equivocal Image: Sacred and Profane in Royal Portraiture

Mise en scene and subversion of political power through dance:Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet

Mapping the Law of Stockholm. Reading Old Maps of Stockholm as Representing and Constituting Judicial Space

Mapping absence. Maps as meta-artistic discourse in literature

Iconology of Law and Dis-Order in the Television Series Law & Order Special Victims Unit

Part 3. Law and Authority in Art

Body Politics. Normative Gaze, Carnal Intimacy and Touching Pain in Vanessa Beecroft’s Art

Mirroring the Law: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Santiago Sierra, Tehching Hsieh, and Chantal Akerman

Body and Authority in Contemporary Art: Tehching Hsieh’s One-Year Performances

Global Panopticism. On the Eye of Power in Modern Surveillance Society and Post-Orwellian Self-Surveillance and Sousveillance-Strategies in Modern Art

Part 4. The Authority of the Image in Law

Crime Evidence: ‘Simulacres et Simulations’, Photography as Forensic Evidence

Constitutional Purgatory: Shades and Presences Inside the Courtroom

List of Images

Name Index

Subject Index