'Of other spaces' - An analysis of visual representations of peripheral socio-cultural space in contemporary America. Joel Sternfeld's Hart Island series

Art history, Art criticism

Jubin, Michelle

University:University of Glasgow

关键词: Art history, Art criticism;   

Others  :  http://theses.gla.ac.uk/71165/1/10390746.pdf

来源: University of Glasgow

【 摘 要 】

This thesis proposes to investigate the manner in which the visual representation of socially marginalised or 'hidden' space in contemporary America relates to the spatial theory and power/knowledge discourse in the work of Michel Foucault, and in particular Foucault's paper Des Espaces Autres/Of Other Spaces (1967), This thesis will specifically relate this theoretical base to representations of such 'heterotopias' in Joel Sternfeld's Hart Island (1998) series of photographs. Sternfeld's documentation of Hail: Island provides an opportunity to problematize contemporary photographic critical discourse in relation to Foucault's treatment of space, notions of the mirror-gaze, and the surveillance function. The intangibility of represented space offers the foundation upon which to deconstruct such stigmatized 'real' spaces within the wider socio-cultural canon.