Farewell to Visual Studies

James Elkins, Gustav Frank, Sunil Manghani, James Elkins, Gustav Frank, Sunil Manghani

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780271070780
• eBook ISBN: 9780271075747
• Topic: Arte
• Subtopic: Teoria e critica dell'arte

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, K?vanç K?l?nç, 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

• COVER Front
• Series Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Series Preface
• INTRODUCTIONS
• FIRST INTRODUCTION: STARTING POINTS (James Elkins)
• SECOND INTRODUCTION: AFFECT, AGENCY, AND APORIA: AN INDISCIPLINE WITH ENDEMIC AMBIVALENCES AND A LACK OF PICTURES (Gustav Frank)
• THIRD INTRODUCTION: VISUAL STUDIES, OR, THIS IS NOT A DIAGRAM (Sunil Manghani)
• THE SEMINARS
• Photo
• 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 (Sunil Manghani)
• CAPTURED BY THE DISCOURSE (Hans Dam Christensen)
• VISUAL STUDIES: A SURREALIST MOMENT (Emmanuel Alloa)
• “A CULTURE MEDIUM” (Nell Andrew)
• DON’T EXPLAIN VISUAL STUDIES (Martin A. Berger)
• VISUAL STUDIES: MOVING BEYOND “VISUAL” (Marta Zarzycka)
• AESTHETIC OBJECTS, RECONSIDERED (Theodore Gracyk)
• FROM IMAGE TO VISIBILITY (Tom Holert)
• VISUAL STUDIES AND/AS ART HISTORYJ (ulia Orell)
• SHOULD WE HAVE KNOWN OUR PLACE AFTER ALL? (Kıvanç Kılınç)
• DID SOMEONE SAY ARCHITECTURE?OR, TAKE MY DISCIPLINE, PLEASE! (Mark Linder)
• MATHEMATICS AND THE VISUAL (Michele Emmer)
• RESPONSE, FAREWELL TO VISUAL STUDIES (Terri Weissman)
• RESPONSES (Johanna Drucker)
• FAREWELL TO A HISTORY WITHOUT THE PAST (Vanessa R. Schwartz)
• AMBIVALENCES: VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES ANDTHE FRANKFURT SCHOOL (Bernd Stiegler)
• EPISODES OF FAILURE? OR, SOME REMARKS ON THE INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO A GENEALOGY OF VISUELLE KULTUR (Lisa Zaher)
• FAREWELL TO VISUAL STUDIES—WELCOME TO PHENOMENOLOGY! (Stephan Günzel)
• FAILURE? FAREWELL? DESTRUCTION!A SHORT REFLECTION ON VISUAL STUDIES,OR VISUAL STUDIES CONTRA BILDWISSENSCHAFT (Bernhard J. Dotzler)
• IMAGE-ABILITY: ANOTHER READING OF BILDGESCHICHTES (joukje van der Meulen)
• THOUGHTS ON VISUELLE KULTUR (Charles W. Haxthausen)
• FAREWELL TO VISUAL STUDIES— COMMENT (Asbjørn Grønstad)
• FAREWELL VERSUS NOW (Øyvind Vågnes)
• “I DON’T KNOW WHY YOU SAY GOODBYE, I SAY HELLO” (ON TAKING BOTH THE VISUAL AND THE POLITICAL SERIOUSLY) (Mark Reinhardt)
• RESPONSE: FAREWELL TO VISUAL STUDIES (Charlotte Klonk)
• CHINESE VISUAL STUDIES (Yolaine Escande)
• THE LATIN AMERICAN DIVIDE (Linda Báez Rubí)
• TOPOLOGICAL THOUGHT: ANACHRONISM AND DISCONTINUITY IN VISUAL STUDIES (Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro)
• “I DON’T KNOW WHY YOU SAY GOODBYE, I SAY HELLO” (Isabelle Decobecq)
• FAREWELL TO VISUAL STUDIES? (Tirza True Latimer)
• “IF THERE’S A PING, THERE HAS TO BE A PONG” (Anna Notaro)
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index
• COVER Back