Global visual cultures : an anthology /
Global visual cultures : an anthology /
edited by Zoya Kocur.
- xv, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Globalism or nationalism? Cai Guo-Qiang, Zhang Huan, and Xu Bing in New York / Xiaoping Lin -- Linking theory, politics, and art / Marina Gržinić -- Art, agency, and the hermetic imagination / Jean Fisher -- Constitutive effects : the techniques of the curator / Simon Sheikh -- Do images have a gender? / David Joselit -- Rethinking the F word : a review of activist art on the Internet / Mary Flanagan and Suyin Looui -- La lección arquitectónica de Arnold Schwarzenegger = The arquitectural lesson of Arnold Schwarzenegger / Cuauhtémoc Medina -- Checkpoints : the split sovereign and the one-way mirror / Eyal Weizman -- Black tents / Çagla Hadimioglu -- Subterranean modernities : the Spanish city and its visual underground / Juan F. Egea -- Visualizing Antartica as a place in time : from the geological sublime to "real time" / Kathryn Yusoff -- Images of untranslatability in the US war on terror / Rosalind C. Morris -- An immense and unexpected field of action : webcams, surveillance and everyday life / J. Macgregor Wise -- Michael Jackson, television, and post-op disasters / Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray -- Aliens and Indians : science fiction, prophetic photography and near-future visions / Curtis Marez -- Orienting Orientalism, or how to map cyberspace / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- Spatial "wRapping" : a speculation on men's hip-hop fashion / Scott L. Ruff -- Self-styling / Sarah Nuttall -- "Straight" women, queer texts : boy-love manga and the rise of a global counterpublic / Andrea Wood -- Squatting through violence / Simon Leung -- Contemporary documentary film and "archive fever" : history, the fragment, the joke / Jaimie Baron -- The mote in God's eye : 9/11, then and now / Jon Bird -- Caught by images / Ernst van Alphen -- Political literacy and voice / Joy James.
"Global Visual Cultures is a definitive anthology that provides a new and groundbreaking perspective on the field, and addresses multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the "everyday" to global political contexts. Expands the theoretical framework for considering visual culture Brings together a rich selection of readings relevant in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary settings, from critical theory, anthropology and history, to political science, architecture, and ethnic, race and gender studies Analyzes cultural phenomena in global and local contexts and across a broad geographical and geopolitical terrain Address multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the "everyday" to global political contexts Offers ample, useful pedagogy that reveals the multi-faceted nature of visual culture"--
1405169214 9781405169219 1405169206 9781405169202
2010051058
Art and society
Visual communication
Communication and culture
N72.S6 / G58 2011
700.103
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Globalism or nationalism? Cai Guo-Qiang, Zhang Huan, and Xu Bing in New York / Xiaoping Lin -- Linking theory, politics, and art / Marina Gržinić -- Art, agency, and the hermetic imagination / Jean Fisher -- Constitutive effects : the techniques of the curator / Simon Sheikh -- Do images have a gender? / David Joselit -- Rethinking the F word : a review of activist art on the Internet / Mary Flanagan and Suyin Looui -- La lección arquitectónica de Arnold Schwarzenegger = The arquitectural lesson of Arnold Schwarzenegger / Cuauhtémoc Medina -- Checkpoints : the split sovereign and the one-way mirror / Eyal Weizman -- Black tents / Çagla Hadimioglu -- Subterranean modernities : the Spanish city and its visual underground / Juan F. Egea -- Visualizing Antartica as a place in time : from the geological sublime to "real time" / Kathryn Yusoff -- Images of untranslatability in the US war on terror / Rosalind C. Morris -- An immense and unexpected field of action : webcams, surveillance and everyday life / J. Macgregor Wise -- Michael Jackson, television, and post-op disasters / Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray -- Aliens and Indians : science fiction, prophetic photography and near-future visions / Curtis Marez -- Orienting Orientalism, or how to map cyberspace / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- Spatial "wRapping" : a speculation on men's hip-hop fashion / Scott L. Ruff -- Self-styling / Sarah Nuttall -- "Straight" women, queer texts : boy-love manga and the rise of a global counterpublic / Andrea Wood -- Squatting through violence / Simon Leung -- Contemporary documentary film and "archive fever" : history, the fragment, the joke / Jaimie Baron -- The mote in God's eye : 9/11, then and now / Jon Bird -- Caught by images / Ernst van Alphen -- Political literacy and voice / Joy James.
"Global Visual Cultures is a definitive anthology that provides a new and groundbreaking perspective on the field, and addresses multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the "everyday" to global political contexts. Expands the theoretical framework for considering visual culture Brings together a rich selection of readings relevant in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary settings, from critical theory, anthropology and history, to political science, architecture, and ethnic, race and gender studies Analyzes cultural phenomena in global and local contexts and across a broad geographical and geopolitical terrain Address multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the "everyday" to global political contexts Offers ample, useful pedagogy that reveals the multi-faceted nature of visual culture"--
1405169214 9781405169219 1405169206 9781405169202
2010051058
Art and society
Visual communication
Communication and culture
N72.S6 / G58 2011
700.103