The Stone Art Theory Institutes. Farewell to Visual Studies / / ed. by James Elkins, Gustav Frank, Sunil Manghani.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Alloa, Emmanuel,; Andrew, Nell,; Berger, Martin A.,; Christensen, Hans Dam,; Decobecq, Isabelle,; Dotzler, Bernhard J.,; Drucker, Johanna,; Elkins, James,; Emmer, Michele,; Escande, Yolaine,; Frank, Gustav,; Gracyk, Theodore,; Grønstad, Asbjørn,; Günzel, Stephan,; Haxthausen, Charles W.,; Hernández-Navarro, Miguel Á.,; Holert, Tom,; Klonk, Charlotte,; Kılınç, Kıvanç,; Latimer, Tirza True,; Linder, Mark,; Manghani, Sunil,; Meulen, Sjoukje van der,; Notaro, Anna,; Orell, Julia,; Reinhardt, Mark,; Rubí, Linda Báez,; Schwartz, Vanessa R.,; Stiegler, Bernd,; Vågnes, Øyvind,; Weissman, Terri,; Zaher, Lisa,; Zarzycka, Marta,
• HerausgeberIn: Elkins, James,; Frank, Gustav,; Manghani, Sunil,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Stone Art Theory Institutes ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 illustration

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Series Preface -- Introductions -- First Introduction: Starting Points -- Second Introduction: Affect, Agency, and Aporia: An Indiscipline with Endemic Ambivalences and a Lack of Pictures -- Third Introduction: Visual Studies, or, This is Not a Diagram -- The Seminars -- Introduction -- 1 Histories: Visuelle Kultur -- 2 Histories: Anglo- American Visual Studies, 1989–1999 -- 3 Histories: 2000–2010 -- 4 Histories: The Present Decade -- 5 Histories: Bildwissenschaft -- 6 Image, Meaning, and Power -- 7 A General Theory of Visual Culture -- 8 The Political -- 9 Science Studies -- 10 The Place of the Image -- 11 Envoi -- Assessments -- Preface -- Captured by the discourse -- Visual studies: A surrealist moment -- “A culture medium” -- Don`t explain visual studies -- Visual studies: Moving beyond “Visual“ -- Aesthetic objects, reconsidered -- From image to visibility -- Visual studies and/as art history -- Should we have known our place after -- Did someone say architecture? Or, take my discipline, please! -- Mathematics and the visual -- Response, farewell to visual studies -- Responses -- Farewell to a history without the past -- Ambivalences visual culture studies and thhe Frankfurt school -- Episodes of failure? Or, some remarks on the institutional history of photography and its relevance to a genealogy of visuelle kultur -- Farewell to visual studies - Welcome to phenomenology! -- Failure? Farewell? Destruction! A short reflection on visual studies, or visual studies contra Bildwissenschaft -- Image-ability another reading of Bildgeschichte -- Thoughts on visuelle kultur -- Farewell to visual studies-comment -- Farewell versus now -- “I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say hello” (On taking both the visual and the political seriously) -- Response: Farewell to visual studies -- Chinese visual studies -- The Latin American divide -- Topological thought anachronism and discontinuity in visual studies -- “I don`t know why you say goodbye, I say hello” -- Farewell to visual studies? -- “If there`s a ping, there has to be a pong” -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index