Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction. Visualising Law and Authority 1
4. Part 1. Towards a Legal Aesthetics
5. “Iconic” Texts of Law and Religion: A Tale of Two Decalogues 13
6. Law Suits: Clothing as the Image of Law 23
7. Part 2. Images of Law and Authority
8. Law and the Equivocal Image: Sacred and Profane in Royal Portraiture 51
9. Mise en scène and subversion of political power through dance: Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet 74
10. Mapping the Law of Stockholm. Reading Old Maps of Stockholm as Representing and Constituting Judicial Space 92
11. Mapping absence. Maps as meta-artistic discourse in literature 114
12. Iconology of Law and Dis-Order in the Television Series 126
13. Part 3. Law and Authority in Art
14. Body Politics. Normative Gaze, Carnal Intimacy and Touching Pain in Vanessa Beecroft’s Art 141
15. Mirroring the Law: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Santiago Sierra, Tehching Hsieh, and Chantal Akerman 164
16. Body and Authority in Contemporary Art: Tehching Hsieh’s One-Year Performances 204
17. Global Panopticism. On the Eye of Power in Modern Surveillance Society and Post-Orwellian Self-Surveillance and Sousveillance-Strategies in Modern Art 232
18. Part 4. The Authority of the Image in Law
19. Crime Evidence: ‘Simulacres et Simulations’, Photography as Forensic Evidence 253
20. Constitutional Purgatory: Shades and Presences Inside the Courtroom 266
21. Images for Visualising Law and Authority. Listed by chapter and with captions and credits 293
22. Name Index 299
23. Subject Index 302