Farewell to Visual Studies
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 22295294
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- ISBN
- 9780271070773
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Farewell to Visual Studies’ is the final book in a five-volume series, each derived from week-long seminars of the Stone Art Theory Institute (2006-2011, under the direction of James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago). Exploring distinct ‘problems’ in contemporary art theory, the series sought to be as international, inclusive, and conversational as possible, giving a comprehensive view of the state of thinking on each issue. Taken together, it involved more than 300 scholars from over 60 countries. The book ‘Farewell to Visual Studies’ (drawing on the work of 55 scholars from more than 10 countries) was published in 2015. It brings together an array of findings through the seminar transcripts, together with 30 critical, reflective assessments from a diverse range of scholars and practitioners in the field. The volume presents close, critical examination of the identity, nature, and future of visual studies. It challenges the canon of literature associated with the field and explores the place of visual studies in relation to theories of vision, visuality, epistemology, politics, and art history; crucially advocating inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives. In echoing T.J. Clark’s ‘Farewell to an Idea’, the project of ‘Farewell to Visual Studies’ is a temporal one, working with and through a set of histories of visual studies. This involved referring back to early 20th century German writings of ‘visuelle Kultur’ (cf. Münsterberg, Benjamin) and Bildwissenschaft (cf. Wölfflin, Warburg, Riegl), as well as considering more recent alternatives to ‘visual culture’, such as with the prolific work of the Swiss, publicly funded Eikones project (that has largely remained inaccessible to non-German speakers). As visiting Faculty member and co-convenor, Manghani was involved in all practical and conceptual aspects. He contributes a single-authored introduction, co-edited the seminars transcripts, and led on the collating and editing of the 30 assessment texts.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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