Global Visual Cultures
An Anthology
1. Auflage März 2011
424 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Global Visual Cultures is a definitive anthology that
provides a new and groundbreaking perspective on the field, and
addresses multiple interpretations of the visual, from
considerations of the "everyday" to global political
contexts.
* Expands the theoretical framework for considering visual
culture
* Brings together a rich selection of readings relevant in a
variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary settings, from
critical theory, anthropology and history, to political science,
architecture, and ethnic, race and gender studies
* Analyzes cultural phenomena in global and local contexts and
across a broad geographical and geopolitical terrain
* Address multiple interpretations of the visual, from
considerations of the "everyday" to global political contexts
* Offers ample, useful pedagogy that reveals the multi-faceted
nature of visual culture
Acknowledgements.
List of Images.
Introduction.
Part I: Realigned Art Worlds: art/agency/globalism.
Introduction (Zoya Kocur).
1.Globalism or Nationalism? (Cai Guoqiang, Zhang Huan, and Xu
Bing in New York, Xiaoping Lin).
2. Linking Theory, Politics and Art (Marina
Grzinic).
3. Art, Agency and Hermetic Imagination (Jean
Fisher).
4. Constitutive Effects: The Techniques of the Curator (Simon
Sheikh).
5. Do Images Have a Gender? (David Joselit).
6. Rethinking the F Word: A Review of Activist Art on the
Internet (Mary Flanagan and Suyin Looui).
Part II: (in)Visible architectures:
space/geopolitics/power.
Introduction (Zoya Kocur).
7. La Lección Arquitectónica de Schwarzenegger (The
Arquitectural Lesson of Arnold Schwarzenegger) (Cuauhtemoc
Medina).
8. Checkpoints: The Split Sovereign and the One-Way Mirror
(Eyal Weizman).
9. Black Tents (Çagla Hadimioglu).
10. Subterranean Modernities: The Spanish City and its Visual
Underground (Juan F. Egea).
11. Visualizing Antarctica as a Place in Time (Kathryn
Yusoff).
12. Images of Untranslatability in the US War on Terror
(Rosalind C. Morris).
13. An Immense and Unexpected Field of Action: Webcams.
Surveillance and everyday life (J. Macgregor Wise).
Part III: Mediated Bodies:
representation/circulation/self.
Introduction (Zoya Kocur).
14. Michael Jackson, Television, and Post-Op Disasters
(Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray).
15. Aliens and Indians: Science Fiction, Prophetic Photography
and Near-Future Visions (Curtis Marez).
16. Orienting Orientalism, or How to Map Cyberspace (Wendy
Hui Kyong-Chun).
17. Spatial "wRapping": A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion
(Scott L. Ruff).
18. Self Styling (Sarah Nuttall).
19. "Straight" Women, Queer Texts: Boy-Love Manga and the Rise
of a Global Counterpublic (Andrea Wood).
Part IV: Afterimage: trauma/history/memory.
Introduction (Zoya Kocur).
20. Squatting Through Violence (Simon Leung).
21. Contemporary Documentary Film and "Archive Fever": History,
the Fragment, the Joke (Jaimie Baron).
22. The mote in God's eye: 9/11, then and now (Jon
Bird).
23. Caught by Images (Ernst van Alphen).
24. Political Literacy and Voice (Joy James).
Index.
"Many anthologies dealing with globalization are not global themselves. This book is a truly global, novel and incisive approach to the intricacies of contemporary visual culture and its political complexities."
--Gerardo Mosquera, Independent art critic and curator
She has taught at New York University and the Rhode Island School
of Design. She is the former Associate Curator of Education at
the New Museum of Contemporary Art, co-editor of the
volume Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education,
and co-editor of Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985
(2005 Wiley-Blackwell).
