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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815882803321

Titolo

Theorizing visual studies : writing through the discipline / / edited by James Elkins. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-15916-9

0-203-07923-X

1-283-89439-4

1-136-15917-7

Edizione

[1st [ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (682 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ElkinsJames <1955->

Disciplina

700

Soggetti

Art and society

Visual communication

Aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Text Boxes; Preface and Acknowledgments; How to Use This Book; An Introduction to the Visual Studies That Is Not in This Book; A Short Introduction to Failure; An Introduction to the Visual as Argument; Airborne Horses; Anaesthetics; Animal; Animations; Arial; Ars Oblivionalis; Artifact; Augmented Reality; Breathing; Collecting; Decolonial; Diaspora; Double-Consciousness; Eleventh Prismatic; Ephemeral; Experimental Geography; Fetish; Filiation; Frame; Iconoclash; Imaginary; Imaginary Twin; Intertitles; Invisibility; Leviathan; LTTR

MasqueradeMetadata; Metaphors; Mimicry; Monstrative; Monuments; Nests; Nets; Non-Place; Objectivity; Obscenity; Observing; Ordinary; Palimpsest; Parafiction; Performance; Performativity; Politics; Portrait's Look; Queer Futures; Redaction; Regimes; Responsivity; Sartorientalism; Self-Perception; Sexualized; Street Art; Surface; Syntagm; Temples; Terror; Trauma; Visible Woman; Visualism; White; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual



anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a truly international, interdisciplinary point of entry into cutting-edge visual studies research. The book is fluid in relation to disciplines; it is frequently inventive in