Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Discipline

by James Elkins (Editor), Kristi McGuire (Editor), Maureen Burns (Editor), Alicia Chester (Editor), Joel Kuennen (Editor)

Overview

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 relation to guiding theories; it is unpredictable in its allegiance and interest in the past of the discipline—reflecting the ongoing growth of visual studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415877930
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/14/2012
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Elkins teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kristi McGuire is a writer, editor, and independent curator of printed matter currently based in Chicago. She holds an MA in visual and critical studies and an MFA in studio art, with an emphasis in writing, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MA in the humanities from the University of Chicago.

Maureen Burns is a writer, editor, and arts consultant, currently living in Chicago. She received her MA in visual and critical studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010.

Alicia Chester is a Chicago-based artist and writer. She completed her MA in visual and critical studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010.

Joel Kuennen is an editor at ArtSlant.com and an arts writer living in Chicago. He received his MA in visual and critical studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments. How to Use This Book An Introduction to the Visual Studies that is Not in This Book. A Short Introduction to Our Failures. An Introduction to the Visual as Argument. 1. Airborne Horses 2. Anaesthetics 3. Animal 4. Animations 5. Arial 6. Ars Oblivionalis 7. Artifact 8. Augmented Reality 9. Breathing 10.Collecting 11. Decolonial 12. Diaspora 13. Double-Consciousness 14. Eleventh Prismatic 15. Ephemeral 16. Experimental Geography 17. Fetish 18. Filiation 19. Frame 20. Iconoclash 21. Imaginary 22. Imaginary Twin 23. Intertitles 24. Invisibility 25. Leviathan 26. LTTR 27. Masquerade 27. Metadata 28. Metaphors 29. Mimicry 30. Monstrative 31. Monuments 32. Nests 33. Nets 34. Non-Place 35. Objectivity 36. Obscenity 37. Observing 38. Ordinary 39. Palimpsest 40. Parafiction 41. Performance 42. Performativity 43. Politics 44. The Portrait's Look 45. Queer Futures 46. Redaction 47. Regimes 48. Responsivity 49. Sartorientalism 50. Self-Perception 51. Sexualized 52. Street Art 53. Surface 54. Syntagm 55. Temples 56. Terror 57. Trauma 58. Visible Woman 59. Visualism 60. White