Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations

Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Keith Moxey

Wesleyan University Press, 1994 - Art - 429 pages

Fifteen key art historians and cultural critics redefine the scope and concerns of scholarship on visual culture—a history of representation seen as something different from a history of art.

"We can no longer see, much less teach, transhistorical truths, timeless works of art, and unchanging critical criteria without a highly developed sense of irony about the grand narratives of the past," declare the editors, who also coedited Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation (1990). The field of art history is not unique in finding itself challenged and enlarged by cultural debates over issues of class, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and gender. Visual Culture assembles some of the foremost scholars of cultural studies and art history to explore new critical approaches to a history of representation seen as something
different from a history of art.

CONTRIBUTORS: Andres Ross, Michael Ann Holly, Mieke Bal, David Summers, Constance Penley, Kaja Silverman, Ernst Van Alphen, Norman Bryson, Wolfgang Kemp, Whitney Davis, Thomas Crow, Keith Moxey, John Tagg, Lisa Tickner.

Contents

• FeminismFoucaultSurveillanceSexuality: 1
• AnneLouis Girodet Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts: 4
• LISA TICKNER: 42
• JOHN TAGG: 83
• ΚΕΙΤΗ ΜΟΧEY: 104
• THOMAS CROW: 141
• Artaxerxes: 144
• Studio of JacquesLouis David after David The Death of Socrates: 145
• JacquesLouis David Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons: 146
• JeanGermain Drouais Marius at Minturnae: 150
• JeanGermain Drouais The Dying Athlete or Wounded Soldier: 152
• JacquesLouis David Marat at his Last Breath: 157
• Hermaphrodite: 160
• WHITNEY DAVIS: 168
• WOLFGANG KEMP: 202
• David Tennis Court Oath: 204
• Helman after Monnet Tennis Court Oath: 205
• David Tennis Court Oath: 206
• David Tennis Court Oath: 207
• Ledoux Theatre at Besançon section: 210
• LegrandMolinos Plan for a Parliament section: 212
• LegrandMolinos Plan for a Parliament section: 213
• Helman after Monnet I Prairial de lan III: 215
• Ledoux Symbolic representation of the auditorium of the theatre in Besançon through the pupil of an eye: 217
• The Great Seal of the United States from the onedollar bill: 218
• Vignette of the Assemblée Constituante until 1791: 220
• Membership card of the Cordeliers after February 1791: 222
• NORMAN BRYSON: 228
• ERNST VAN ALPHEN: 260
• KAJA SILVERMAN: 272
• CONSTANCE PENLEY: 302
• ANDREW ROSS: 325
• MICHAEL ANN HOLLY: 347
• MIEKE BAL: 365
• DAVID SUMMER: 384
• List of Contributors: 413

About the author

NORMAN BRYSON is Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University and author of Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (1990).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations; Art History / Media Studies; Art history/media studies
• Editors: Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Keith Moxey
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1994
• ISBN: 081956267X, 9780819562678
• Length: 429 pages
• Subjects: Art / Criticism & Theory; Art / History / General; Performing Arts / Film / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social