Beyond the Mirror : : Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies.

• Superior document: Image ; v.182
• Author: Falkenhausen, Susanne von.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Image
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Seeing and the concept of visuality -- Trains of thought - readings -- Art history and seeing -- Seeing in the visual field: visual culture studies -- Seeing as an ethical question -- Part One: How do Art Historians See? -- 1. Interpreting Forms of Representation -- Visual order as concretized worldview - Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form -- Seeing as an approach to reality - Ernst Gombrich's Art and Illusion -- 2. Experience and the Visual -- The "Period Eye" - Michael Baxandall's Painting and Experience -- Between presence and representation - Svetlana Alpers' The Art of Describing -- 3. Through the Eyes of the Spectator -- Seeing the Other - Otto Pächt's The Practice of Art History: Reflections on Method -- Focus on reception - Wolfgang Kemp's Der Anteil des Betrachters -- Part Two: Visual Culture Studies - Looking at the Visual -- 4. Visual Culture Studies - Concepts and Agendas -- Culture, the political, and visual culture -- Identity as a cultural and political concept -- Political visuality: visibility as a contested resource -- The academic discourse of visuality -- One‐point perspective as a metaphor for rationalist cultures of power -- 5. Visual Culture Studies' Foundational Concept -- The model of the gaze -- The threatened subject - Norman Bryson -- The evil eye and a counter-model - Margaret Olin -- 6. Visual Culture Studies' Operational Concept -- What is visual culture? W.J.T. Mitchell -- Visuality as event - Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Seeing is reading - Mieke Bal -- 7. Seeing as a Political Resource in Visual Culture Studies -- The stigmatizing gaze - 'Integration and positive revaluation' - Norman Bryson -- The discriminating and the oppositional gaze - bell hooks -- An attempt at integration from art history - Lisa Bloom -- Evidence -- Evidence of the non-visible - Martin A. Berger.

The utopian gaze and its failure - Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Part Three: Towards an Ethics for the Act of Seeing -- 8. Questions of Ethics -- Historical unfamiliarity in art historical seeing -- Cultural unfamiliarity - the "Other" in the gaze of visual culture studies -- The narcissistic circle - a critique -- Attention and recognition -- Visual spaces of the subject: Narration and observation -- "Self‐identity is a bad visual system. Fusion is a bad strategy of positioning." -- Seeing the Other -- Outlook: The digital world and its consequences -- Bibliography -- Index.