In this Book
- Farewell to Visual Studies
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Penn State University Press
- Series: The Stone Art Theory Institutes
Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation” on knotty and provocative issues about art.
This fifth and final volume in the series focuses on the identity, nature, and future of visual studies, discussing critical questions about its history, objects, and methods. The contributors question the canon of literature of visual studies and the place of visual studies with relation to theories of vision, visuality, epistemology, politics, and art history, giving voice to a variety of inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives. Rather than dismissing visual studies, as its provocative title might suggest, this volume aims to engage a critical discussion of the state of visual studies today, how it might move forward, and what it might leave behind to evolve in productive ways.
The contributors are Emmanuel Alloa, Nell Andrew, Linda Báez Rubí, Martin A. Berger, Hans Dam Christensen, Isabelle Decobecq, Bernhard J. Dotzler, Johanna Drucker, James Elkins, Michele Emmer, Yolaine Escande, Gustav Frank, Theodore Gracyk, Asbjørn Grønstad, Stephan Günzel, Charles W. Haxthausen, Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro, Tom Holert, Kıvanç Kılınç, Charlotte Klonk, Tirza True Latimer, Mark Linder, Sunil Manghani, Anna Notaro, Julia Orell, Mark Reinhardt, Vanessa R. Schwartz, Bernd Stiegler, Øyvind Vågnes, Sjoukje van der Meulen, Terri Weissman, Lisa Zaher, and Marta Zarzycka.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Series Preface
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- The Seminars
- 1. Histories: Visuelle Kultur
- pp. 31-42
- 3. Histories: 2000–2010
- pp. 57-66
- 4. Histories: The Present Decade
- pp. 67-80
- 5. Histories: Bildwissenschaft
- pp. 81-98
- 6. Image, Meaning, and Power
- pp. 99-108
- 7. A General Theory of Visual Culture
- pp. 109-118
- 8. The Political
- pp. 119-132
- 9. Science Studies
- pp. 133-142
- 10. The Place of the Image
- pp. 143-152
- Assessments
- Captured by the Discourse
- pp. 166-169
- Visual Studies: A Surrealist Moment
- pp. 170-173
- “A Culture Medium”
- pp. 174-176
- Don't Explain Visual Studies
- pp. 177-178
- Visual Studies: Moving Beyond “Visual”
- pp. 179-180
- Aesthetic Objects, Reconsidered
- pp. 181-183
- From Image to Visibility
- p. 184
- Visual Studies and/as Art History
- pp. 185-186
- Should We Have Known Our Place After All?
- pp. 187-189
- Mathematics and the Visual
- pp. 194-197
- Response, Farewell to Visual Studies
- pp. 198-199
- Farewell to a History Without the Past
- pp. 204-206
- Thoughts on Visuelle Kultur
- pp. 222-224
- Farewell to Visual Studies—Comment
- pp. 225-227
- Farewell Versus Now
- pp. 228-229
- Response: Farewell to Visual Studies
- pp. 234-237
- Chinese Visual Studies
- pp. 238-240
- The Latin American Divide
- pp. 241-245
- Farewell to Visual Studies?
- pp. 252-254
- “If There's a Ping, There Has to Be a Pong”
- pp. 255-258
- Notes on the Contributors
- pp. 259-266
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