Description
Book SynopsisA transdisciplinary collection of essays discussing the identity, nature, and future of visual studies as a laboratory for thinking about relations between fields including art history, cultural studies, sociology, visual anthropology, film studies, media studies, postcolonial studies, philosophy of history, the science of vision, and science studies.
Trade Review“Farewell to Visual Studies is astonishing and impressive. It opens the field to self-critical questions about its history, objects, and methods (in contrast to art history and German Bildwissenschaft). The statements of the editors at the beginning, the open-minded and self-critical discussion among the participants in the Chicago Seminars, and the contributions of the experts at the end deliver a deep impression of how such a self-assessment may lead to new shores.”
—Martina Sauer,Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik (DGS)
“In looking back at the whole field of visual studies, the collection offers a lively contribution to the history of the inter/trans/in/discipline. It is a wonderful example of how understanding and new thinking are produced by performing intellectual clarification and innovation on the page, giving readers the sense of mediated participation in the Stone Center Seminars.”
—Jon Simons,Indiana University Bloomington
Table of ContentsContents
Series Preface
Introductions
First Introduction: Starting Points
James Elkins
Second Introduction: Affect, Agency, and Aporia: An Indiscipline with Endemic Ambivalences and a Lack of Pictures
Gustav Frank
Third Introduction: Visual Studies, or, This is Not a Diagram
Sunil Manghani
The Seminars
1 Histories: Visuelle Kultur
2 Histories: Anglo-American Visual Studies, 1989–1999
3 Histories: 2000–2010
4 Histories: The Present Decade
5 Histories: Bildwissenschaft
6 Image, Meaning, and Power
7 A General Theory of Visual Culture
8 The Political
9 Science Studies
10 The Place of the Image
11 Envoi
Assessments
Preface
Sunil Manghani
Hans Dam Christensen
Emmanuel Alloa
Nell Andrew
Martin A. Berger
Marta Zarzycka
Theodore Gracyk
Tom Holert
Julia Orell
Kıvanç Kılınç
Mark Linder
Michele Emmer
Terri Weissman
Johanna Drucker
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Bernd Stiegler
Lisa Zaher
Stephan Günzel
Bernhard J. Dotzler
Sjoukje van der Meulen
Charles W. Haxthausen
Asbjørn Grønstad
Øyvind Vågnes
Mark Reinhardt
Charlotte Klonk
Yolaine Escande
Linda Báez Rubí
Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro
Isabelle Decobecq
Tirza True Latimer
Anna Notaro
Notes on the Contributors
Index
