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Record Nr.

UNINA9910411917503321

Autore

Falkenhausen Susanne von <p>Susanne von Falkenhausen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland </p>

Titolo

Beyond the Mirror : Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies / Susanne von Falkenhausen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Image

Disciplina

700

Soggetti

Art History

Visual Culture

Gaze

Identity

Alterity

Art

Image

Theory of Art

Visual Studies

Cultural Studies

Fine Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Introduction    7 1. Interpreting Forms of Representation    27 2. Experience and the Visual    43 3. Through the Eyes of the Spectator    65 4. Visual Culture Studies - Concepts and Agendas    93 5. Visual Culture Studies' Foundational Concept    113 6. Visual Culture Studies' Operational Concept    139 7. Seeing as a Political Resource in Visual Culture Studies    157 8. Questions of Ethics    201 Bibliography    227 Index    243

Sommario/riassunto

Since the late 1980s visibility has become a currency of social recognition, and a political issue. It also brought forth a new discipline, visual culture studies, and a hotly contested debate unfolded between art history and visual culture studies over the interpretation of visual



culture, whose impact can still be felt today. In this first comparative study Susanne von Falkenhausen reveals the concepts of seeing as scholarly act that underwrite these competing approaches to visuality and society, along with the agendas of identity politics that motivate them. In close readings of key texts spanning from the early 20th century to the present the author crosses expertly between American, German, and British versions of art history, cultural studies, aesthetics, and film studies.

Besprochen in:optische fenomenen, 400 (2020)https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu, 04.11.2020, Andrej Pop