In place of abjection, we conclude by arguing for a more thoroughly social and political account of the place of birth in contemporary culture, based on forms of 'natal thinking', which we suggest that the birthrites collection proposes. Professor Soraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar who focuses on contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in art, cultural studies. In: Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts Research and Pedagogy. In particular, we argue that these new popular and artistic representations of birth trouble accounts of the birthing body as abject, and what could be described as the 'abject aesthetics' that has dominated the visual representation of birth. It also brought forth a new discipline, visual culture studies, and a hotly contested debate unfolded between. Starting from below: Phenomenological Interventions in Art History and Visual Culture. We explore the meanings and implications of this new visual culture of birth, and the ways its reception is challenging earlier feminist conceptualisations of motherhood and the birthing body. Boylan Visual Culture EPUB Download EPUB Summary Download Visual Culture PDF Description. This paper focuses on two contemporary sites: the growing phenomenon of 'childbirth reality TV' and the birthrites collection, a unique art collection in the UK dedicated to the subject of childbirth. As yet, however, there is little feminist scholarship on the implications of this new and varied visual culture of childbirth and its relationship to earlier feminist debates about the cultural taboo against the representation of birth. In the last three decades, there has been a dramatic increase in media representations of childbirth across a range of platforms: cinema, reality television and television drama, online video-sharing platforms, pornographic film, and in fine art practice. Visual Culture Malady and Mortality Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China Art, Design, Film, New Media and the Prospects of Post-West - Removed Looking at Laughter Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture.
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