This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a truly international, interdisciplinary point of entry into cutting-edge visual studies research. The book is fluid in relation to disciplines; it is frequently inventive in relation to guiding theories; it is unpredictable in its allegiance and interest in the past of the discipline—reflecting the ongoing growth of visual studies.

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Abelard, Pierre 81

Abramović, Marina 22

Abu Ghraib 27

Acconci, Vito 51, 212–14

Acker, Kathy 22

actor-network theory 18, 140–41

advertising 90

aesthetics: anaesthetics and 65–68; augmented reality and 90; end of 198; illusion in 70; politics and 54–56, 129–130, 218–220; of truth 117–18

affect and affect theory 21–22, 28n6

Afro-descendent people: diaspora and 104–5; double-consciousness and 107–9; interpretation of art by 148

Ahmed, Sara 224, 225

Akomfrah, John 123

Alberti, Leon Battista 230, 231

Aldarondo, Cecilia 57

Althusser, Louis 188

anaesthetics. See aesthetics

Anderson, Laurie 22

animals, aesthetic illusion and 69–72

animation 73–76, 108

animism, history of visual studies and 6

anthropology: place and non-place in 188–190; visualism in 57, 278–281

Antonioni, Michelangelo 123

Appadurai, Arjun 23, 53, 134–37

Arab Spring 67

architecture: Disneyland and 262–65; minimalism in 255; representational codes and 181; scopic regimes and 231–33

archives and collecting 96–99, 113–15

Arendt, Hannah 148

Argentina, Dirty War in 72

Arneson, Robert 175–78

art history: diaspora in 105; Kunstwissenschaft and 4; the ordinary in 202; performance art in 215; primacy of knowing and 234; trauma theory and 270; visual as argument in 26; visual culture and 16–17, 18n6, 202; visual studies’ relation to 3, 8, 16–17, 27. See also visual as argument; visual studies

artifacts 84–87, 204

Art Institute of Chicago 17

artworks in this book, dates of 79, 99, 127

art worlds 250–51

Asher, Michael 267

Atget, Eugene 125, 126

Atlas Group 209

Augé, Marc 13, 33–34, 188–190

augmented reali...

Cover
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Text Boxes
Preface and Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
An Introduction to the Visual Studies That Is Not in This Book
A Short Introduction to Failure
An Introduction to the Visual as Argument
Airborne Horses
Anaesthetics
Animal
Animations
Arial
Ars Oblivionalis
Artifact
Augmented Reality
Breathing
Collecting
Decolonial
Diaspora
Double-Consciousness
Eleventh Prismatic
Ephemeral
Experimental Geography
Fetish
Filiation
Frame
Iconoclash
Imaginary
Imaginary Twin
Intertitles
Invisibility
Leviathan
LTTR
Masquerade
Metadata
Metaphors
Mimicry
Monstrative
Monuments
Nests
Nets
Non-Place
Objectivity
Obscenity
Observing
Ordinary
Palimpsest
Parafiction
Performance
Performativity
Politics
Portrait’s Look
Queer Futures
Redaction
Regimes
Responsivity
Sartorientalism
Self-Perception
Sexualized
Street Art
Surface
Syntagm
Temples
Terror
Trauma
Visible Woman
Visualism
White
Contributors
Index

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