Seeing Differently

<em>Seeing Differently</em> offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual the painted image a world picture expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond. The book is both a history of these ideas (for example tracing the dominance of a binary model of self and other from Hegel through classic 1970s identity politics) and a political response to the common claim in art and popular political discourse that we are beyond or post- identity.