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Taking the fall of the Berlin Wall as a key marker in recent history - a period in which increasingly we find ourselves watching 'instant history' unfold live on air - the book presents a new critical concept of image critique: a double procedure of both a critique of images and the use of images as a means to engage with our contemporary mediated culture for new critical purposes. A rich array of primary sources are woven together to provide a thorough critique of the recent and lively theoretical debates about visual culture. Topics range from Francis Fukuyama's End of History thesis to meta

Communication visuelle. --- Image (philosophie) --- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989. --- Visual communication. --- Image (Philosophie) --- Berlin (Allemagne) --- Berliner Mauer. --- Image (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication

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Examines the critical concept ‘zero degree’ through the work of Roland Barthes and Victor Burgin. In the fields of literature and the visual arts, 'zero degree' represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to, and outside of, the dominant cultural order. Taking Roland Barthes’ 1953 book Writing Degree Zero as just one starting point, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual impact of the term and draws directly upon the editors’ ongoing collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin. The book is composed of key chapters by the editors and Burgin, a series of collaborative texts with Burgin and four commissioned essays concerned with the relationship between Barthes and Burgin in the context of the spectatorship of art. It includes an in-depth dialogue regarding Burgin’s long-term reading of Barthes and a lengthy image-text, offering critical exploration of the Image (in echo of earlier theories of the Text). Also included are translations of two projections works by Burgin, Belledonne and Prairie, which work alongside and inform the collected essays. Overall, the book provides a combined reading of both Barthes and Burgin, which in turn leads to new considerations of visual culture, the spectatorship of art and the political aesthetic. Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics is part of a two volume set, alongside Barthes/Burgin,. The two books represent the editors’ long-term collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin. Read together, the books set out the preparatory work for an exhibition, as well as detailed critical reflections and extended research, cutting across art practice, critical theory and the politics of aesthetics.

Semiotics and art. --- Sémiotique et art --- Barthes, Roland --- Burgin, Victor --- Influence. --- Influence.

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Image (Philosophy) --- Popular culture. --- Visual communication. --- Visual sociology. --- Image (Philosophy). --- Popular culture --- Visual communication --- Visual sociology --- Sociology --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Philosophy

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A new critical consideration of the writings and works of Roland Barthes and Victor BurginThe influence of Roland Barthes on Burgin’s work is well documented. Equally, Burgin’s prominence as an artist and theorist concerned with text and image offers a productive dialogue with Barthes’ work. Victor Burgin has long been considered both theorist and practitioner, while Barthes is more known as a theorist and writer. In bringing to the fore Barthes’s practice of painting and drawing, Barthes/Burgin prompts a new critical consideration of Barthes/Burgin, theory/practice, writing/making and criticality/visuality.Barthes/Burgin features two new interviews with Burgin, one concerned with his turn to new digital practices and the other a reflection on his reading of Roland Barthes. Also included are images and texts from the artists and an essay critically examining Barthes’ exercises in drawing and painting.This book accompanied an exhibition at the John Hansard Gallery (February to April 2016), bringing together recent projection works by Victor Burgin and a selection of drawings by Roland Barthes rarely seen outside of France. The exhibition played with Barthes’ use of the slash as established in semiology (and notably used in the title of Barthes’ key poststructuralist work S/Z).Key FeaturesPublished as the official catalogue of the exhibition of the same name that is being held at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, as well as a stand-alone art and philosophy bookOver 20 full-colour illustrations, including newly commissioned work by Victor Burgin and images of Barthes’ work on paperContains newly commissioned text by Victor Burgin and unpublished conversations with him on his recent projection works and their theoretical implications

Drawing --- Photography, Artistic --- Artistic photography --- Photography --- Photography, Pictorial --- Pictorial photography --- Art --- Drawings --- Sketching --- Graphic arts --- Illustration of books --- Manual training --- Aesthetics --- Burgin, Victor --- Barthes, Roland --- Barthes, Roland. --- Burgin, Victor. --- Dessin --- Photographie artistique --- Barthes, R. --- Барт, Ролан --- Bart, Rolan --- Baruto, Roran --- בארת, רולאן --- بارت، رولان --- ロラン・バルト --- Luolan Bate --- 羅蘭・巴特

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