Includes a catalog of the exhibition "Some colours of the law" held at The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Preface / Daniel Witte. On the observations of the observer of the observers : a few observations on perspecitvity and irony between arts, sociology and the law / Werner Gephart -- The Anglo-American tradition -- The French tradition -- The German tradition -- Global and European traditions -- Artistry in scholarship : the cultural tradition of Werner Gephart / Martin Albrow -- Werner Gephart, artiste de la raison juridique : Le chemin de n¿ud papillon rose -- Paragraphing : normativity in Europe as Babylon on a Werner Gephart intervention / Sanja Milutinovic Bojanic, Petar Bojanic -- An empty stadium / Marta Bucholc -- Fortune or justice? : some thoughts on Werner Gephart's Multiple justitiae / Jose M. Gonzalez Garcia -- To tear out a page / Peter Goodrich -- Art as a vehicle in deconstructing law and justice / Ruth Herz -- Emile Durkheim grabbing the bull by the horns / Gerd Krumeich -- "The optical unconscious" : a snapshot of Werner Gephart's thought images of art and law -- On seeing the colours of law : for Werner / Greta Olson -- Colorandi causa; or convictions of colour / Grischka Petri -- Werner Gephart : or of science and the will of form / Dieter Ronte -- Benthan's architecture of power and the disciplinary gaze of Inspector Foucault / Jan Christoph Suntrup -- The deconstruction of justice (2016) : (with a few works on Jacques Derrida with his own handwriting (2014)) / Marco Wan -- On the observations of the observer of the observers : a few observations on perspecitvity and irony between arts, sociology and the law / Daniel Witte.
Summary:
"This book assembles the vision of placing the visual, textual and theoretical into a productive relation. The volume is, in the first part, a documentation of an exhibition at The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London containing images and commentaries by the artist. The second part is devoted to reflections on some specific images, installations and the project itself. These challenging interpretations by renowned scholars interpretations transcend the scope of the particular artworks by engaging in far-reaching theoretical considerations of the represented issues and thinkers as well as by illuminating the manifold relations of art and law. How to paint the law and the related traditions of social thought remains a fundamental question of this undertaking. Theoretical impulses, for example de-centralizing European social thought, join non-Occidental aesthetic traditions and lead to communication problems in a global world that reach far beyond spoken language and text. If it is true that innovation sometimes happens at the cross-cutting lines between different spheres and disciplines, this book may serve as an inspiration of further "Frohliche Wissenschaft" without betraying the eternal normative questions of law and justice"--Back cover.
Series:
Schriftenreihe des Kate Hamburger Kollegs "Recht als Kultur" ; volume 21
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