Conceptual Odysseys Passages to Cultural Analysis

by Pollock, Griselda

• ISBN13: 9781845115227
• ISBN10: 1845115228
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

This book, with an introduction by Mieke Bal, presents work by a new generation of scholars responding directly to Bal's idea of the "travelling concept". By taking a concept from one discipline and, with a genuine understanding of its origin, thoughtfully applying this in a new context, exciting new possibilities are opened up for analysis of artworks and other cultural objects. Here we find these "travelling concepts" employed in fresh explorations of subjects as diverse as the paintings of Poussin and of Adam Elsheimer; Chantal Akerman's film; The Museum of the French Revolution and the work of German Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon. This is a uniquely illuminating contribution to the edgy territorial conflicts between visual culture, art history and cultural studies.

Author Biography

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds, and Director of the AHRB CentreCATH project. Her numerous books include Mary Cassatt, Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and Histories of Art and, as co-editor, Encountering Eva Hesse.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Editor's Preface-New Encounters	p. xiii
Working with Concepts	p. 1
Framing	p. 11
Visual Agency	p. 25
Mirror	p. 36
Trauma	p. 51
Life-Mapping	p. 63
Puncture/Punctum	p. 91
History	p. 103
Nostalgia	p. 120
Pedagogy	p. 138
Efficacity	p. 153
Commitment	p. 172
Notes	p. 187
Selected Bibliography	p. 219
Contributors	p. 232
Index of Authors and Artists	p. 237
Index of Subjects and Concepts	p. 240
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