Judging the Image · Art, Value, Law

Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. *Judging the Image* extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. This book provides a space to think through problems of ethics, social authority and the legal imagination. Concepts of memory and interpretation, violence and aesthetic, authority and legitimacy are considered in a diverse range of sites, including:

* body, performance and regulation

* judgment, censorship and controversial artworks

* graffiti and the aesthetics of public space

* HIV and the art of the disappearing body

* witnessing, ethics and the performance of suffering

* memorial images - art in the wake of disaster.