W. J. Thomas Mitchell: Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (1986)
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“Mitchell undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language.”
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 1986
ISBN 0226532291, 9780226532295
x+226 pages
Reviews: Lee B. Brown (The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1986), Roger Seamon (Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 1986), Patrick Maynard (London Review of Books, 1988), Anna J. Smith (Philosophy and Literature, 1988), Stefan Beyst (2010).
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Comment (0)Hollis Frampton: Circles of Confusion. Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981 (1983)
Filed under book | Tags: · art criticism, experimental film, film, photography, video, video art
Hollis Frampton is most well known as an independent filmmaker, but has been lecturing and writing about photography, film and video for a long time and in many places and publications. Circles of Confusion assembles eleven articles from exhibition catalogs and from October and Artforum. What Frampton does as a critic is much like what he does as a filmmaker, which is to strip the creative process down to its basic elements, then arrange and display the components..
Framptont’s role in this is critic-as-conjurer . He prestidigitates ideas and illusions from everywhere–history, psychology, philosophy, literature, even archaeology, whatever might apply. However much he may circle, though, he always comes back to basic ontological questions. What is photography? Film? Video? What are the properties that make them unique? What has film to do with narrative? Photography with space and time? Beyond a king these questions Frampton also conjectures about the possible ways of asking them and the likelihood of getting an answer. He also plays the role of critic-as-authoritative-voice, but by exposing the jagged mechanisms of thought makes the reader much more than a participant in the process than is usually the case.
Foreword by Annette Michelson
Publisher Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983
ISBN 0898220203, 9780898220209
200 pages
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Comment (0)Rasheed Araeen, Sean Cubitt, Ziauddin Sardar (eds.): Third Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory (2002)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art criticism, art history, culture, decolonization, ethnocentrism, eurocentrism, language, modernism, multiculturalism, neocolonialism, neoliberalism, poststructuralism, semiosphere, theory
“Third Text has been the world’s leading journal on art in the global context. Known for challenging received notions of art practice, art history, popular media and cultural theory, it has never accepted unquestioningly the claims of anti-racism, multiculturalism or postcolonialism. Similarly, Third Text has not only championed new artists from six continents, it has raised the critical temperature and the political stakes for art and cultural practice in the age of globalization. This Reader brings together classic essays by some of the best-known critics in global art and cultural studies, together with some of the most exciting new voices to emerge over the last decades. Divided into sections that cover history, representation, identity, film, “post” theory, globalization, the Reader will be invaluable to students and teachers of art, cultural studies, media studies, postcolonialism and globalization.”
Selected contributors: Zygmunt Bauman, Rustom Bharucha, Zeynap Çelik, James Clifford, Sean Cubitt, Jimmie Durham, Clifford Geertz, Stuart Hall, Kobener Mercer, Benita Parry, George Ritzer, Edward Said, Ziauddin Sardar, Julian Stallabrass, Slavoj Zizek.
Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002
ISBN 0826458513, 9780826458513
392 pages
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