Farewell to Visual Studies

Published by Penn State University Press 2015

Farewell to Visual Studies

Edited by: James Elkins , Gustav Frank and Sunil Manghani

Volume 5 in the series The Stone Art Theory Institutes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271075747

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Elkins James :

James Elkins is E. C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Frank Gustav :

Gustav Frank is Professor of German at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.Manghani Sunil :

Sunil Manghani is Reader in Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Southampton.

Reviews

“Farewell to Visual Studies is astonishing and impressive. It opens the field to self-critical questions about its history, objects, and methods (in contrast to art history and German Bildwissenschaft). The statements of the editors at the beginning, the open-minded and self-critical discussion among the participants in the Chicago Seminars, and the contributions of the experts at the end deliver a deep impression of how such a self-assessment may lead to new shores.”
—Martina Sauer, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik (DGS)

“In looking back at the whole field of visual studies, the collection offers a lively contribution to the history of the inter/trans/in/discipline. It is a wonderful example of how understanding and new thinking are produced by performing intellectual clarification and innovation on the page, giving readers the sense of mediated participation in the Stone Center Seminars.”
—Jon Simons, Indiana University Bloomington

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Series Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introductions
First Introduction: Starting Points James Elkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Second Introduction: Affect, Agency, and Aporia: An Indiscipline with Endemic Ambivalences and a Lack of Pictures Gustav Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Third Introduction: Visual Studies, or, This is Not a Diagram Sunil Manghani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
The Seminars
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
1 Histories: Visuelle Kultur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2 Histories: Anglo- American Visual Studies, 1989–1999 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3 Histories: 2000–2010 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4 Histories: The Present Decade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5 Histories: Bildwissenschaft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
6 Image, Meaning, and Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
7 A General Theory of Visual Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
8 The Political Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
9 Science Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
10 The Place of the Image Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
11 Envoi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Assessments
Preface Sunil Manghani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Captured by the discourse Hans Dam Christensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Visual studies: A surrealist moment Emmanuel Alloa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
“A culture medium” Nell Andrew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Don`t explain visual studies Martin A. Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Visual studies: Moving beyond “Visual“ Marta Zarzycka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Aesthetic objects, reconsidered Theodore Gracyk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
From image to visibility Tom Holert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Visual studies and/as art history Julia Orell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Should we have known our place after Kıvanç Kılınç Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Did someone say architecture? Or, take my discipline, please! Mark Linder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Mathematics and the visual Michele Emmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Response, farewell to visual studies Terri Weissman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Responses Johanna Drucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Farewell to a history without the past Vanessa R. Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Ambivalences visual culture studies and thhe Frankfurt school Bernd Stiegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Episodes of failure? Or, some remarks on the institutional history of photography and its relevance to a genealogy of visuelle kultur Lisa Zaher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Farewell to visual studies - Welcome to phenomenology! Stephan Günzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Failure? Farewell? Destruction! A short reflection on visual studies, or visual studies contra Bildwissenschaft Bernhard J. Dotzler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Image-ability another reading of Bildgeschichte Sjoukje van der Meulen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Thoughts on visuelle kultur Charles W. Haxthausen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Farewell to visual studies-comment Asbjørn Grønstad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Farewell versus now Øyvind Vågnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
“I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say hello” (On taking both the visual and the political seriously) Mark Reinhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Response: Farewell to visual studies Charlotte Klonk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Chinese visual studies Yolaine Escande Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
The Latin American divide Linda Báez Rubí Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Topological thought anachronism and discontinuity in visual studies Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
“I don`t know why you say goodbye, I say hello” Isabelle Decobecq Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Farewell to visual studies? Tirza True Latimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
“If there`s a ping, there has to be a pong” Anna Notaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Images: 1
- Other: 1 illustration

eBook

Published: October 28, 2015
ISBN: 9780271075747