Introduction. Visualising Law and Authority -- Part 1. Towards a Legal Aesthetics -- "Iconic" Texts of Law and Religion: A Tale of Two Decalogues -- Law Suits: Clothing as the Image of Law -- Part 2. Images of Law and Authority -- Law and the Equivocal Image: Sacred and Profane in Royal Portraiture -- Mise en scene and subversion of political power through dance:Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet -- Mapping the Law of Stockholm. Reading Old Maps of Stockholm as Representing and Constituting Judicial Space -- Mapping absence. Maps as meta-artistic discourse in literature -- Iconology of Law and Dis-Order in the Television Series Law & Order Special Victims Unit -- Part 3. Law and Authority in Art -- Body Politics. Normative Gaze, Carnal Intimacy and Touching Pain in Vanessa Beecroft's Art -- Mirroring the Law: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Santiago Sierra, Tehching Hsieh, and Chantal Akerman -- Body and Authority in Contemporary Art: Tehching Hsieh's One-Year Performances -- Global Panopticism. On the Eye of Power in Modern Surveillance Society and Post-Orwellian Self-Surveillance and Sousveillance-Strategies in Modern Art -- Part 4. The Authority of the Image in Law -- Crime Evidence: 'Simulacres et Simulations', Photography as Forensic Evidence -- Constitutional Purgatory: Shades and Presences Inside the Courtroom -- List of Images -- Name Index -- Subject Index.