Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents
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
