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Seeing Differently 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. In Challenging This Latter Claim, Seeing Differently Critically Examines How And Why We Identify Works Of Art With An Expressive Subjectivity, Noting The Impossibility Of Claiming We Are Post-identity Given The Persistence Of Beliefs In Art Discourse And Broader Visual Culture About Who The Subject Is, And Offers A New Theory Of How To Think This Kind Of Identification In A More Thoughtful And Self-reflexive Way. Ultimately, Seeing Differently Offers A Mode Of Thinking Identification As A Queer Feminist Durational Process That Can Never Be Fully Resolved But Must Be Accounted For In Thinking About Art And Visual Culture. Queer Feminist Durationality Is A Mode Of Relational Interpretation That Affects Both Art And Interpreter, Potentially Making Us More Aware Of How We Evaluate And Give Value To Art And Other Kinds Of Visual Culture.--pub. Desc. Introduction: The Leaking Frame Of The Argument On How To See Differently -- Art As A Binary Proposition: Identity As A Binary Proposition -- Fetishizing The Gaze And The Anamorphic Perversion: The Other Is You -- Multiculturalism, Intersectionality, And Post-identity -- Queer Feminist Durationality: Time And Materiality As A Means Of Resisting Spatial Objectification -- Seeing And Reconceiving Difference: Concluding Thoughts, Without Final Conclusions. Amelia Jones. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.