Vision and Textuality

by Melville, Stephen; Readings, Bill; Pollock, Griselda (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822316442
• ISBN10: 0822316447
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

The influence of contemporary literary theory on art history is increasingly evident, but there is little or no agreement about the nature and consequence of this new intersection of the visual and the textual.Vision and Textualitybrings together essays by many of the most influential scholars in the field-both young and more established writers from the United States, England, and France-to address the emergent terms and practices of contemporary art history. With essays by Rosalind Krauss, Hal Foster, Norman Bryson, Victor Burgin, Martin Jay, Louis Marin, Thomas Crow, Griselda Pollock, and others, the volume is organized into sections devoted to the discipline of art history, the implications of semiotics, the new cultural history of art, and the impact of psychoanalysis. The works discussed in these essays range from Rembrandtrs"sDanaeto Jorge Immendorfrs"sCafeacute; Deutschland, from Vauxhall Gardens to Max Ernst, and from theImaginesof Philostratus to William Godwinrs"s novelCaleb Williams. Each section is preceded by a short introduction that offers further contexts for considering the essays that follow, while the editorsrs" general introduction presents an overall exploration of the relation between vision and textuality in a variety of both institutional and theoretical contexts. Among other issues, it examines the relevance of aesthetics, the current concern with modernism and postmodernism, and the possible development of new disciplinary formations in the humanities. This collection, offering a wide-ranging survey of the impact of critical theory on teh discipline and practice of art history, will be of interest to all students of the visual arts and aesthetics.Contributors.Mieke Bal, John Bender, Norman Bryson, Victor Burgin, Thomas Crow, Peter de Bolla, Hal Foster, Michael Holly, Martin Jay, Rosalind Krauss, Franccedil;oise Lucbert, Louis Martin, Stephen Melville, Griselda Pollock, Bill Readings, Irit Rogoff, Bennet Schaber, John Tagg

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

General Introduction

Basic Concepts Of Art History

Beholding Art History: Vision, Place and Power

Past Looking

A Discourse (With Shape of Reason Missing)

The Aesthetics of Post-History: A German Perspective

How Oblivious is Art? Kitsch and the Semiotician

Reading the Gaze: The Construction of Gender in 'Rembrandt'

Philostratus and the Imaginary Museum

Topic and Figures of Enunciation: Is it Myself that I Paint

Armour Fou

The Pen and the Eye: The Politics of the Gazing Body

Impersonal Violence: The Penetrating Gaze and the Field of Narration in Caleb Williams

The Visibility of Visuality: Vauxhall Gardens and the Sitting of the Viewer

B/G

Vision Procured

In the Master's Bedroom

Photo-unrealism: The Contribution of the Camera to the Crisis of Ocularcentrism

Chance Encounters: Flaneur and Detraquee in Breton's Nadja

Index

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