Theorizing the Visual: From Alberti's Window to Windows 98
SECAC/SECAH (Southeastern College Art Conference), October 25-27 2001
This session is an investigation of the concept of the visual image
which takes as its starting point the following pair of related
assumptions: 1) conceptions of the visual field are historically
constituted and dynamic 2) conceptions of the visual field have been
mediated by and manifest within a set metaphors which together
reflect the dynamism and historically contingent status of the visual
image. Attending to this neglected aspect of art's history, this
session will consider the metaphors that have lent historically
diverse meaning to the concept of the visual image - window, shadow,
mirror, screen, etc.--
with particular attention given to what those metaphors may reveal
about the nature of the link not only between representation and
history, but also between representation and the subject it may or
may not reflect.
Papers might choose to concentrate on a single metaphor, addressing
its historical contingency in conjunction with an analysis of its
ideological underpinnings. Or, papers might choose to contrast
conceptions of the visual - focusing either on contemporaneous but
opposing notions of the image, or on a moment of transition from one
conception of the image to another. Alternately, papers might choose
to supply a metaphor for a moment which lacks this attribute, while
reflecting on the fact of the metaphor's historical absence or
unspeakability. Finally, papers might address the recurrence of one
metaphor over time - for example, the re-emergence of the window in
our digital present.
Isabelle Wallace
Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art
University of New Orleans
Submission deadline: March 25
Direct proposals and inquiries to the following address and/or email:
Dr. Isabelle Wallace
Department of Fine Arts
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70148
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