Must justice be blind? : the challenge of images to the law

Author

Jay, Martin

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

Law and the image : the authority of art and the aesthetics of law

Author (monograph)

Douzinas, Costas (Editor, Collective Author); Nead, Lynda (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Law and the image : the authority of art and the aesthetics of law. 1999, 19-35, 6 ill.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press, Chicago (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Examines allegorical images of Justice, considering especially the problem of the blindfold, which appears in the late 15th c. as a negative force in a narrative of blocking or occluding Justice, but by ca.1530 is incorporated as a positive attribute of the image - a symbol of neutrality rather than helplessness. Asks what the ramifications of this symbol might be on our notions of the law, as well as noting the female gender of the blindfolded figure (contrasted with Vermeer's images of a woman with scales).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts
• Art
• Allegory
• Justice
• 1400-1700
• Law

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques
• Art
• Allégorie
• Justice
• 1400-1700
• Loi

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19991001-00211256

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