'Largely due to the “linguistic turn” that has dominated the humanities since the mid-twentieth century, many contemporary scholars and artists habitually equate works of art with highly coded texts to be deciphered, deconstructed, or otherwise interpreted. Here, meaning, value, and impact have been fundamentally linked to art’s capacity to “speak,” to represent, to raise questions about representation, to convey a message, or articulate a concept. Much visual culture scholarship has tried to engage with art and the image-world outside of these logics.

Within this quest to consider art differently, Jorella Andrews and Simon O’Sullivan pay attention to the asignifying character of art, or simply its affective qualities. Drawing on the work of key thinkers (for O’Sullivan, the writings of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Jean-François Lyotard) and turning to paradigmatic works of art (for Andrews, film and video pieces by Rosalind Nashashibi and Jayne Parker), they contextualize these art-related matters in relation to a significant recent rise in new thinking about objects, objectness, and objectivity within philosophy, critical theory, and ethics.' - from back cover.

Includes bibliography and biographies of authors.

The other 2 publications in this series: Visual Cultures as Seriousness and Visual Cultures as Recollection are also in AAA's collection.
 
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Visual Cultures as...

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REF.ANJ2
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

86

ISBN / ISSN

9783943365382

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

The Aesthetics of Affect: Thinking Art beyond Representation - Simon O'SULLIVAN

Intending Objects and Signs 'Which Have No Meaning': Art, Intercorporeality, and Ethics - Jorella ANDREWS

Affective Turns: A Conversation betweeen Jorella Andrews and Simon O'Sullivan

Visual Cultures as Objects and Affects
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Visual Cultures as Objects and Affects