This website provides information on the PhD. project „Composite & Eigenface. Histories and Continuities of Human Measurement between Arts and Science.“ at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Read the preliminary abstract. Info on other projects by Raul Gschrey.
Archiv für den Monat: September 2019
Popularisation & Populism in the Visual Arts
Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts, Ed: Anna Schober, London: Routledge, 2019.
Including a text of mine: „Facing Everybody? Composite Portraiture as Representation of a Common Face“ (Raul Gschrey)
This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appeal to “all of us”. Scholars from several European countries discuss a key figure these practices bring into play—the “everybody”—in an interdisciplinary way. The contributions focus on the operation and genealogies of popularisation and communication practices, which can assume populist forms, in contemporary democracies. They also address the ambivalences of attraction, i.e. the ways in which visual creations evoke for example desire as well as hatred, invite identification or produce rejection and trigger mimicry as well as conversion processes.