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Vision and textuality

edited by Stephen Melville and Bill Readings

Macmillan, 1995

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  • : pbk

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'Melville and Readings have done a superb job, not only in their choice of essays, but in their elaborate and highly ambitious introduction. It is the best assessment that I know of the current state of contemporary art history and criticism, the most subtle analysis of the theoretical alternatives open to contemporary and future work in these disciplines.' - Keith Moxey, Barnard College and Columbia University;This volume brings together the work of distinguished critics and art historians in order to reflect and assess the impact of current critical theory on the discipline and practice of art history. Centring on the intersection of questions of vision with the problematic of textuality, the book addresses how issues of politics, semiotics, psychoanalysis and historiography have contributed to the emergent terms and practices of the new art histories.

Table of Contents

  • List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: General Introduction: Textuality and Vision
  • S. Melville & B. Readings - PART 2: Introduction: Basic Concepts of Art History
  • S. Melville - Beholding Art History: Vision, Place, and Power
  • G. Pollock - Past Looking
  • M. Holly - A Discourse with the Shape of Reason Missing
  • J. Tagg - Post-Aesthetics: A German Perspective
  • I. Rogoff - PART 3 Introduction: How Obvious is Art? Kitsch and the Semiotician
  • B. Readings - Reading the Gaze
  • M. Bal - Philostratus and the Imaginary Museum
  • N. Bryson - 'It is Myself that I Paint': Topics and Figures of Enunciation
  • L. Marin - Armor Fou
  • H. Foster - PART 4 - Introduction: Histoire Politique de l'Oeil
  • F. Lubert - Impersonal Violence
  • J. Bender - Vision and Visuality
  • P.de Bolla - B/G
  • T. Crow - PART 5 - Introduction: Vision Procured
  • B. Schaber - In the Master's Bedroom
  • R. Krauss - Photo Unrealism
  • M. Jay - Chance Encounters
  • V. Burgin - Index

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