Beyond the Mirror - Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies

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.

A propos de l'auteur

Susanne von Falkenhausen is professor emerita of modern and contemporary art history at Humboldt University Berlin.

Résumé

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.

Texte suppl.

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

Commentaire

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Susanne von Falkenhausen
• Edition: Transcript
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 06.07.2020
• EAN: 9783837653526
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-5352-6
• Pages: 250
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Poids: 666 g
• Illustrations: 1 SW-Abb.
• Thèmes: Image; Image (COL)
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Sciences humaines en général; Verstehen, Image, Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein, Kunsttheorie, art, Medienwissenschaften, Art History, Cultural Studies, Theory of art, Fine Arts, Alterity, Visual Studies, Identity, Visual Culture, auseinandersetzen, Gaze, Film Theory & Criticism, Culture and institutions, History, geographic treatment, biography, Public performances, Computer art (Digital art)