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Farewell to Visual Studies

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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.


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

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

Hans Dam Christensen

Emmanuel Alloa

Nell Andrew

Martin A. Berger

Marta Zarzycka

Theodore Gracyk

Tom Holert

Julia Orell

Kıvanç Kılınç

Mark Linder

Michele Emmer

Terri Weissman

Johanna Drucker

Vanessa R. Schwartz

Bernd Stiegler

Lisa Zaher

Stephan Günzel

Bernhard J. Dotzler

Sjoukje van der Meulen

Charles W. Haxthausen

Asbjørn Grønstad

Øyvind Vågnes

Mark Reinhardt

Charlotte Klonk

Yolaine Escande

Linda Báez Rubí

Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro

Isabelle Decobecq

Tirza True Latimer

Anna Notaro

Notes on the Contributors

Index


“In looking back at the whole field of visual studies, the collection offers a lively contribution to the history of the inter/trans/in/discipline. It is a wonderful example of how understanding and new thinking are produced by performing intellectual clarification and innovation on the page, giving readers the sense of mediated participation in the Stone Center Seminars.”

—Jon Simons, Indiana University Bloomington

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