Titlebook: Rethinking Art and Visual Culture; The Poetics of Opaci Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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Boundaries of Discernibility: Ernie Gehr,he materialization throughout his oeuvre of a poetics of opacity. The claim is put forth that this work has produced a set of recurring stylistic and thematic concerns that together come to constitute a particular ..

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On the Concept of Opacity in Art and Theory,ical genealogies of the present attempt at theorizing opacity. Identifying a possible origin for the thesis that the photographic/filmic image is essentially opaque in the anti-mimetic criticism of early film theorists such as Ricciotto Canudo, Germaine Dulac, Jean Epstein, and Rudolf Arnheim, the c

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Boundaries of Discernibility: Ernie Gehr, optically regenerative practices by which materially impaired images exploit their own opacity to attain a new modality of existing as a visual artifact. In order to do this, I turn toward American avant-garde cinema, in particular works by Bill Morrison and Ernie Gehr. With reference to Kazimir Ma

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Archival Ghosts, or the Elsewhere of the Image: John Akomfrah,nt embodies another manifestation of the aesthetics of decay, of the ruin as an object of philosophical contemplation. In focus here is the work of the British filmmaker artist and collagist John Akomfrah. In a work like . (2010), the ruin is no longer a natural or constructed object such as a skull

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The Shape of the Secret: Matt Saunders,recalls both Gehr’s poetics of spectrality as well as Akomfrah’s fascination with transtextuality and its archival accent. Like that of Gehr, Saunders’s art seeks to transcend the boundaries of the filmic, both in a technical-material, representational, and cultural sense. His work probes the inters

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A Hermeneutics of the Black Site: Trevor Paglen,eld from us. One such use of opacity is realized through the projects of the artist and researcher Trevor Paglen. Focusing on stealthy military operations and test sites—remote desert installations in the southwest or a classified spacecraft orbiting the Earth—Paglen produces photographs across subs

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