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Beyond the Mirror: Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies
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Abstract 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 im... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
art history; identity; cultural studies; art; fine arts
Classification
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
Visual Culture; Gaze; Alterity; Image; Theory of Art; Visual Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
248 p.
Series
Image, 182
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839453520
ISBN
978-3-8394-5352-0
Status
Published Version; reviewed