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Title: Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law by Costas Douzinas, Lynda Nead ISBN: 0-226-56954-3 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00

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Summary: ABOUT THE INTERRELATION OF LAW AND AESTHETICS
Comment: This is an interesting recopilation of essays about the relationship of law and art, normativism and creativity, obscenity and common mores. It contains contributions by several scholars in the field of Art and Law and is edited by professors Costas Douzinas and Lynda Nead.
The main scope of the book is to provide insights into the relationship between art and the law. As the editors write in the introduction:
"Lawyers live by the text and love the past, they hate novelty and misunderstand new languages. The law is able to appreciate new art only after it becomes like law. Great art, on the other hand, precisely because it breaks away from conventions and rules and expresses creative freedom and imagination, is the anthitesis of law. The law of art is the opposite of the rule of law......"
So here we find out how the individual is treated in abstract by the law and how the self in art is free, corporeal, with gender and history. We also learn about the allegorical images of Justice, during different ages and how obscenity, law and art intermingle. I found very illuminating,in this perspective, the basic qualities that prof. Nead assigns to the connoisseur of art: knowledge and judgment. "Connoisseurship -she writes- assumes a thorough knowledge of the subject concerned, which forms the basis of a critical judgment. But what kind of judgment is involved in connosseurship? The obvious answer would seem to be, an aesthetic sort-the perception and appraisal of pure form, of that which is beautiful. But at the point at which connoisseurship appears to have clearly defined aims and objects, the borders begin to dissolve; cerebral criteria become corporalized and the judgement of artistic form is compromised by the regulation of bodies and behaviors.."
And finally a startling conclusion is drawn: the prevention of obscenity by law acts to control mass culture and publics and to insulate the high culture and private consumption from legal intervention. This because what gentlemen choose to have in their private collections is a matter of taste; it is not a matter for the law......