Vision and textuality : edited by Stephen Melville and Bill Readings.

Author(s): Readings, Bill | Melville, Stephen

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Main Title
Vision and textuality
Author(s)
Melville, Stephen
Readings, Bill
Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Collation
xvii, 391 p. : ill.
24 cm.
ISBN
0822316447
Dewey Class
707.2
Contents
Pt. 1. General introduction / Stephen Melville and Bill Readings -- Pt. 2. Basic concepts of art history / Stephen Melville -- Beholding art history: vision, place and power / Griselda Pollock -- Past looking / Michael Ann Holly -- A discourse (with shape of reason missing) / John Tagg -- The aesthetics of post-history: a German perspective / Irit Rogoff -- Pt. 3. How obvious is art?: Kitsch and the semiotician / Bill Readings -- Reading the gaze: the construction of gender in "Rembrandt" / Mieke Bal -- Philostratus and the imaginary museum / Norman Bryson -- Topic and figures of enunciation: is it myself that I paint / Louis Marin -- Armour Fou / Hal Foster -- Pt. 4. The pen and the eye: the politics of the gazing body / Françoise Luchert -- Impersonal violence: the penetrating gaze and the field of narration in Caleb Williams / John Bender -- The visibility of visuality: Vauxhall Gardens and the Siting of the viewer / Peter de Bolla -- B/G / Thomas Crow -- Pt. 5. Vision procured / Bennet Schaber -- In the master's bedroom / Rosalind Krauss -- Photo-unrealism: the contribution of the camera in the crisis of ocularcentrism / Martin Jay -- Chance encounters: Flâneur and Detraquée in Breton's Nadja / Victor Burgin.
Language
English
Subject
Art -- Historiography.
Art and literature.
BRN
5772

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