Editing the Image: Strategies in the Production and Reception of the Visual

by Cheetham, Mark; Legge, Elizabeth; Soussloff, Catherine M.

• ISBN13: 9780802092489
• ISBN10: 0802092489
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-04
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

The editing process is a vital part of virtually every form of media. Primarily associated with texts and written language, editing is equally essential, if less examined, in regard to visual media. Editing the Imagelooks at the editing of visual media as both a series of technical exercises and as an allegory. It touches on concerns that are crucial to the history of art and visual culture, as well as those media and institutions that produce and disseminate the visual arts in our society.Featuring contributors from a wide range of disciplines, Editing the Imageconsiders editing in the context of academic journals, art-historical texts, illustrated books, museum displays, and exhibitions. It is an inclusive analysis of visual forms commonly associated with the process of editing - photography, film, and video - as well as some that are not intrinsically linked to editing - painting, sculpture, and architecture. In addition to wide-ranging academic considerations, this collection includes discussions of moving picture media and studio art by practitioners, giving the study a practical focus. For anyone who has considered the implications of the editorial process, this work will be of significant interest.

Author Biography

"Mark A. Cheetham is a professor in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Toronto. Elizabeth Legge is an associate professor in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Toronto. Catherine M. Soussloff is Presidential Chair and professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz."

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Illustrations	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
Editing Identity
Mr Blank Gets Concretized	p. 3
Striking Through the Artist's Body: Ekphrasis in Bellori's Life of Caravaggio	p. 15
Editing the Body of History
An Edited Past: Aegean Prehistory and Its Texts	p. 33
The Trouble with Painting, the Image (less) Text	p. 67
Spectactular Editing
Concealing Spectacles: Childbirth and Visuality in Early Modern France	p. 95
Edit In ... Edit Out: A Performance/Intervention	p. 115
Aura and Edit
Editing Armageddon	p. 127
Editing the Image: Two On-site/Online Exhibitions	p. 153
Institutions of Art and Editorial Practices
The Art Museum as Installation: An Interpretation of the Place of Matisse's The Joy of Life in the Barnes Foundation	p. 167
Editing In vs. Editing Out: World Art Studies and the Pathologies of Academe	p. 183
Conclusions
'Editorial' Afterthoughts	p. 199
Envoi: What Remains: The Nachleben of the Invisible	p. 207
Index	p. 233
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