Visual Culture Studies
Interviews with Key Thinkers
- Marquard Smith - UCL, UK / Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, UCL Institute of Education, UK/ Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, UCL Institute of Education, UK
- The intellectual and institutional status of Visual Culture Studies
- The histories, genealogies and archaeologies of visual culture and its study
- The diverse ways in which the experiences of vision, and the visual, can be articulated and mobilized to political, aesthetic and ethical ends
This book demonstrates the intellectual significance of visual culture studies, and the ongoing importance of the study of the visual.
Marquard Smith is Reader in Visual and Material Culture at Kingston University, London, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Visual Culture.
CONTENTS:
1. Visual Culture, Everyday Life, Difference and Visual Literacy
Interview with Nicholas Mirzoeff
2. Mixing it up: The Media, the Senses and Global Politics
Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
3. Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, Politics and the Citizen
Interview with Susan Buck-Morss
4. On the State of Cultural Studies
Interview with Paul Gilroy
5. Disability Studies, the Humanities and the Limits of the Visible
Interview with Lennard J. Davis
6. Naming, Networks and Scientific Regimes of Vision
Interview with Lisa Cartwright
7. Phenomenology, Mass Media and Being-in-the-world
Interview with Vivian Sobchack
8. Performance, Live Culture and Things of the Heart
Interview with Peggy Phelan
9. Cultural Cartography, Materiality and the Fashioning of Emotion
Interview with Giuliana Bruno
10. Visual Studies, Historiography and Aesthetics
Interview with Mark A. Cheetham, Michael Ann Holly, and Keith Moxey
11. That Visual Turn: The advent of visual culture
Interview with Martin Jay
12. Polemics, Postmodernism, Immersion, Militarized Space
Interview with Hal Foster
13. The Object of Visual Culture Studies and Preposterous History
Interview with Mieke Bal
By its survey or overview nature, it would need to be a supplemental text in a course.