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Author Elkins, James

Title Theorizing Visual Studies : Writing Through the Discipline
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (682 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
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Subject Art and society.
Visual communication.
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics
Art and society
Visual communication
Form Electronic book
Author McGuire, Kristi
Burns, Maureen
Chester, Alicia
Kuennen, Joel
ISBN 9781136159176
1136159177