Beyond the Mirror : : Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies.
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| Superior document: | Image ; v.182 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2020. ©2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Image
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 pages) |
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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.