Law and the Image
The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law
- Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
INTRODUCTION
Costas Douzinas and Lynda Nead
PART I - VISION AND LAW
1. Must Justice Be Blind? The Challenge of Images to the Law
Martin Jay
2. Prosopon and Antiprosopon: Prolegomena for a Legal Iconology
Costas Douzinas
PART II - THE LAW OF IMAGES
3. The Molding Image: Genealogy and the Truth of Resemblance in Pliny’s Natural History, Book 35, I-7
Georges Didi-Huberman
4. The Iconography of Nothing: Blank Spaces and the Representation of Law in Edward VI and the Pope
Peter Goodrich
PART III - THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF JUSTICE
5. The Function of the Ornament in Quintilian, Alberti, and Court Architecture
Piyel Haldar
6. The Festival of Justice: Paris, 1849
Katherine Fischer Taylor
7. Law and Justice in England and France: The View from Victorian London
Jonathan P. Ribner
PART IV - OBSCENITY AND ART
8. Bodies of Judgment: Art, Obscenity, and the Connoisseur
Lynda Nead
9. "Not in a Public Lavatory but on a Public Stage": The Prosecution of The Romans in Britain
Mandy Merck
10. Obscene, Abject, Traumatic
Hal Foster
Index
Art: Art--General Studies
Law and Legal Studies: General Legal Studies
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