Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture

2024-12-31 Classification：literature Click()
Author：Bal, M

Article Title：Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture

Abstract：
The double question whether visual culture studies is a discipline or an interdisciplinary movement, and which methods are most suited to practice in this field, can only be addressed by way of the object. This article probes the difficulty of defining or delimiting the object of study without the reassuring and widespread visual essentialism that, in the end, can only be tautological.

Keywords: art; interdisciplinarity; literature; methodology; museums; popular culture; visual culture

DOI: 10.1177/147041290300200101

Source：JOURNAL OF VISUAL CULTURE

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