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Lieven Gevaert Series
Innovative books on photography
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Named after a ground-breaking figure in the Belgian photography industry, the Lieven Gevaert Series is a peer reviewed series of innovative books on photography.
Launched in 2004, the Lieven Gevaert Series takes into account the ubiquitous presence of photography within modern culture and, in particular, the visual arts. At the forefront of contemporary thinking on photography, the books offer new insights in the position of the photographic medium within the art historical, theoretical, social and institutional contexts.
The series covers four types of publications: • outstanding monographic studies • multi-authored volumes on a specific topic • book length projects with artists • translations and/or reprints of classic texts.
All books are published in English and are written for an international audience of scholars.
The series is published in collaboration with the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography at KU Leuven and Université catholique de Louvain (www.lievengevaertcentre.be). The series editors are Hilde Van Gelder and Alexander Streitberger.
Recently published in the Lieven Gevaert Series:
n Allan Sekula. Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum, Hilde Van Gelder (ed.) € 39,50 / £35.00, isbn 978 94 6270 005 5, paperback n Jan Dibbets, The Photographic Work, Erik Verhagen € 39,50/ £35.00, isbn 978 90 5867 991 8, paperback n Minor Aesthetics. The Photographic Work of Marcel Mariën, Mieke Bleyen € 39,50 / £35.00, isbn 978 90 5867 968 0, paperback n Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography, Ariella Azoulay € 34,50/ £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 949 9, paperback
For more information about the series, visit www.lgseries.be
Images Performing History
Photography and Representations of the Past in European Art after 1989
Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans
The role of photographic media in making and remaking history History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in different ways, the operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history. Not limited to a particular artistic medium, they demonstrate how history is forged through enacting or re-enacting its past forms, while, on the other hand, they indicate how copying and quoting can contribute to creating a new, operative aesthetics. By foregrounding a performative character of images, art is shown to construct an alternative knowledge of the past.
Also of Interest
n Time and Photography Jan Baetens, Alexander Streitberger, Hilde Van Gelder (eds) € 34,50 / £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 793 8, paperback, Lieven Gevaert Series 10 katarzyna ruchel-stockmans is Professor of Art History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
n € 39,50 / £35.00
n isbn 978 94 6270 029 1 n April 2015 n Paperback, 17 x 23 cm n 50 illustrations n ca. 304 pp. n Lieven Gevaert Series 20 n English
– Mark Johnson, Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon
– Ib Bondebjerg, Professor, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen
Embodied Cognition and Cinema
Maarten Coëgnarts, Peter Kravanja (eds)
‘The Go-Between’ © 1970 StudioCanal Films Ltd. © 1971, Renewed 1999 Columbia Pictures, a division of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Innovative exploration of the embodied cognition thesis in film studies The embodied cognition thesis claims that cognitive functions cannot be understood without making reference to the interactions between the brain, the body, and the environment. The meaning of abstract concepts is grounded in concrete experiences. This book is the first edited volume to explore the impact of the embodied cognition thesis on the scientific study of film. A team of scholars analyse the main aspects of film (narrative, style, music, sound, time, the viewer, emotion, perception, ethics, the frame, etc.) from an embodied perspective. By combining insights from various disciplines such as cognitive film theory, conceptual metaphor theory, and cognitive neuroscience, they show how the process of meaning-making in film is embodied and how empathy and embodied simulation play a role in understanding the way in which the viewer interacts with the film. Foreword by Mark Johnson, Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon.
Contributors M. Coëgnarts (University of Antwerp), P. Kravanja (KU Leuven), M. Kiss (University of Groningen), J. Chattah (University of Miami), H. Chapelle Wojciehowski (University of Texas), M. Guerra (University of Parma), M.S. Ward (University of Technology, Sydney), A. D’Aloia (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan), M.J. Ortiz (University of Alicante), W. Buckland (Oxford Brookes University), M. Johnson (University of Oregon).
Also of interest
n In and Out of Brussels. Figuring Postcolonial Africa and Europe in the Films of Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Renzo Martens, and Els Opsomer T.J. Demos, Hilde Van Gelder (eds) € 29,50 / £25.00, isbn 978 90 5867 919 2, paperback (+ DVD), Lieven Gevaert Series 14 n Meta- and Inter-Images in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture Carla Taban (ed.) € 45,00 / £39.00, isbn 978 90 5867 957 4, paperback maarten coëgnarts is finishing a PhD in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp. peter kravanja is a Research Fellow at KU Leuven.
n € 69,50 / £59.00
n isbn 978 94 6270 028 4 n April 2015 n Hardback, 16 x 24 cm n Illustrated n ca. 336 pp. n English
