Werner Gephart / Jure Leko (eds.)
Law and the arts.
Elective affinities and relationships of tension
Frankfurt am Main : Vittorio Klostermann, 2017, 430 pp.illustrations
(partly color)
ISBN: 9783465042983
This volume documents the outcome of a working group
regarding «Law and the Arts», which was organized by the Käte
Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities «Law as
Culture». The collected contributions discuss the structural relationships
and contradictions of law and the arts with the aim of bringing the spheres
closer to each other again. The plea is therefore that the reciprocal potential
for insight be
better utilized not only through conceptualization, aesthetic reflection, and
sensory appraisals, but also through aesthetic practice. Thus, this volume
takes a look beyond the classical subject matter of law and literature and
incorporates the increasing interest for visual cultures, yet also encourages
new fields of research that relate to the hidden relationship between law and
music as well as the colorfulness of law and law as sculpture.
Introduction
Werner Gephart and Jure Leko
Law and the Arts. Elective
Ajnities and Relationships of Tension
I. Theoretical Orientations
Eva Schürmann
Law as the Art of Picturing a
Case
Angela Condell o and Enrico
Terrone
Genre Classification: A Problem
of Normativity and Exemplarity
Tiziana Andina
Goodbye Beauty: Normativity in
Contemporary Visual Arts
José-Manuel Barreto
Feeling Human Rights: The
Emotional Art of Viola, Salgado and Botero
Uriel Procaccia
A Narrative of Legislative
Failure: From Portalis to Picasso and Beyond
Jan Christoph Suntrup
The Power of Judgment in Law,
Politics, and the Arts
II. Law and the Genres of Art
Thomas Dreier
Law and Images: Normative Models
of Representation and Abstraction
Marie Bels and Patrícia Branco
Law and Architecture: Courthouse
Architecture, Searching for
a New Balance between
Representation and Functionality
Laurent de Sutter
On the Obscenity of Law, or
Why Pornography’s Legacy Is Worth
Fighting For
Morag Josephine Grant
Musical Communication, »Hate
Speech«, and Human Rights Law
Inge Kroppenberg
Blind Bodies of Justice:
Aesthetics and Law in Johann
Gottfried Herder’s Sculpture
Marta Bucholc
Semantic Transparency of the
Normative in the Poetry of
Zbigniew Herbert
III. Legal Cultures and the
Aesthetics of the Law
Werner Gephart
Abstraction: A Myth of the
Occidental World
Sabine N. Meyer
Law and the Map: Indigenous Art
and the Remapping of the Settler State
Grischka Petri
The Color of Law
Zoltán Megyeri-Pálffi
»Following a Model« as an Element
of the Hungarian Legal Culture
with Special Regard to Gyula
Wágner’s Judicial Architecture
IV. Living Art and Law in Action
Josephine Grant and Eva Schürmann
»Beauty Does Matter«: Interview
with Tim Shaw Conducted by Morag
About the Authors
Werner Gephartis a legal scholar, sociologist, artist, and Founding
Director of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities
«Law as Culture»
Jure Lekois a reseracher at the Käte Hamburger Center for
Advanced Study in the Humanities «Law as Culture»
