Visual Culture Revisited
German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture(s)
1st Edition
Published in October 2007
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Paperback/Softback
314 pages
978-3-931606-30-5 (ISBN)
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Is there a visual culture or are there only visual cultures? On the one hand, it is obvious that images do not stand for themselves and they cannot be understood by themselves. Instead, they are always included in practices and embedded in institutions. This is the common ground, suggesting an understanding of visual culture in the singular. On the other hand, it is clear that visual culture is in no way a singular phenomenon. There is a plurality of pictorial representations - from the sitcom to illustrations in children's books, from cartoons to satellite photos, from high art to everyday-life. Furthermore, the field of the visual is one of conflict between self and other, mainstream and counter culture. This book collects articles in the English language, which explore both theoretical reflections and case studies pointing to the dialectics of visual culture(s). At the center are examples of the U.S. American context - beginning with the photographic focusing of Native Americans as the 'vanishing race' in the nineteenth century to the TV coverage of the space shuttle Columbia in February, 2003. This book is therefore highly recommended for both students and scholars in the field of American Studies and those interested in the interdisciplinary debate on visual culture(s). Gibt es eine visuelle Kultur oder nur visuelle Kulturen? Auf der einen Seite ist es unzweifelhaft, dass Bilder keine isolierte Existenz besitzen und daher auch nicht allein aus sich heraus verstanden werden können. Sie sind vielmehr Bestandteil von Praktiken und eingebettet in Institutionen; und dies ist die Gemeinsamkeit, die es nahelegt, von einer visuellen Kultur im Singular zu reden. Auf der anderen Seite ist ebenso offensichtlich, dass die visuelle Kultur kein monolithischer Block ist. Es gibt eine Vielzahl von Typen bildlicher Darstellung: von der Sitcom zur Illustration im Kinderbuch, vom Cartoon zum Satellitenphoto, in der hohen Kunst oder im Alltagsleben. Außerdem ist das Feld des Visuellen ein Feld des Konflikts und der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Selbst und Anderem, Mainstream und Gegenkultur. Der Band versammelt englischsprachige Texte, die sich über eine Reihe von theoretischen Reflexionen und Fallstudien mit dieser Dialektik der visuellen Kultur(en) auseinandersetzen. Im Zentrum finden sich dabei vor allem Beispiele aus dem US-amerikanischen Kontext - angefangen von der Fokussierung der amerikanischen Ureinwohner als 'vanishing race' in der Fotografie des 19. Jahrhunderts bis hin zur medialen Bewältigung des Columbia-Unglücks im Februar 2003. Infolgedessen ist das Buch nicht allein für ein interdisziplinär ausgerichtetes Publikum äußerst empfehlenswert, das sich für die Analyse des Visuellen interessiert, sondern auch für Wissenschaftler und Studenten in der Amerikanistik.
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Ralf Adelmann works currently in a research project of the German Government about »Visualizations in Scientific Communication«. University studies in media studies, philosophy, sociology and art history at the universities of Erlangen and Bochum, Germany. Dissertation thesis: Visual cultures of control society. On the Popularization of Digital and Videographic Visualizations in Television (2003). His fields of academic interest are audio-visual cultures, media theory, media economies in popular culture, documentary formats in television.
Andreas Fahr *1966; Andreas Fahr's scholarship focuses on mass communication, mainly from a media psychological perspective. As a quantitatively-oriented social scientist he has mainly used content analysis, surveys, and experiments in his research. Andreas studied communication, psychology & economics between 1989 and 1995 at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. In 1996 his master-thesis about »Tandemspots - boosters of advertising?« won the annual research prize from the German professional association of market and social researchers (BVM). Between 1995 and 2000 he worked as research associate at the Media Institute Ludwigshafen (applied media studies). Since 2000 he is working as assistant professor at the department for communication and media research at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. In his doctoral thesis (2001) he examined the perfomance of news coverage about catastrophies
Ines Katenhusen is associate professor at the Institute of Political Sciences, University of Hannover. As such, she is the coordinator of the interdisciplinary Masters program in European Studies and, among other subjects, teaches the history of European integration in the twentieth century. Her dissertation on arts and politics in the 1920ies was published in 1998. Since 2000, she has been working on the German-American art historian and museum director Alexander Dorner. In this context, she has been awarded several research fellowships by US-American and German institutions, such as the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies/DAAD/Johns Hopkins University, the Fulbright Commission, the German Historical Institute, Washington, and the Terra Foundation for American Arts/John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, FU Berlin. In spring 2005, she has been guest professor at the Université de Paris 7. Articles and essays on Dorner have been published in German, US-American as well as French and Russian journals and books. Recent articles also include art historical, cultural historical, and urban historical issues. Furthermore, she has published on various issues of European history.
Nic Leonhardt studied Theatre Studies and Audiovisual Media, German Philology and Art History at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Mainz. In her PhD-thesis, Piktoral-Dramaturgie (Pictorial Dramaturgy), she explored the interplay of Visual Culture and Theatre in 19th Century Germany (1869-1899). She worked as a research assistant and associate instructor at the University of Mainz, and the University of Music in Köln, and received grants from the University of Mainz, the DAAD, and the Fulbright Commission. Nic Leonhardt is currently holding a position as research assistant at the University of Music and Theatre, Leipzig. Her research interests and publications include theatre and media history, visual culture, popular culture, censorship, acting theory, and telenovelas. She is currently working on a book on stereography.
Dimitri Liebsch Education in philosophy, history, and German literature. Ph.D. in philosophy (Ruhr-University Bochum, 1999). Working experience as assistant professor, lecturer (in philosophy and social sciences), and journalist. Academic and professional interests: Aesthetics, theory of media, social theory, visual studies, philosophy of film.
Publications: Die Geburt der ästhetischen Bildung aus dem Körper der antiken Plastik (2001), Philosophie des Films. Grundlagentexte (ed., 2005), articles on aesthetics, theory of perception, philosophy of film, Rudolf Arnheim, September 11.
Andreas Fahr *1966; Andreas Fahr's scholarship focuses on mass communication, mainly from a media psychological perspective. As a quantitatively-oriented social scientist he has mainly used content analysis, surveys, and experiments in his research. Andreas studied communication, psychology & economics between 1989 and 1995 at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. In 1996 his master-thesis about »Tandemspots - boosters of advertising?« won the annual research prize from the German professional association of market and social researchers (BVM). Between 1995 and 2000 he worked as research associate at the Media Institute Ludwigshafen (applied media studies). Since 2000 he is working as assistant professor at the department for communication and media research at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. In his doctoral thesis (2001) he examined the perfomance of news coverage about catastrophies
Ines Katenhusen is associate professor at the Institute of Political Sciences, University of Hannover. As such, she is the coordinator of the interdisciplinary Masters program in European Studies and, among other subjects, teaches the history of European integration in the twentieth century. Her dissertation on arts and politics in the 1920ies was published in 1998. Since 2000, she has been working on the German-American art historian and museum director Alexander Dorner. In this context, she has been awarded several research fellowships by US-American and German institutions, such as the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies/DAAD/Johns Hopkins University, the Fulbright Commission, the German Historical Institute, Washington, and the Terra Foundation for American Arts/John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, FU Berlin. In spring 2005, she has been guest professor at the Université de Paris 7. Articles and essays on Dorner have been published in German, US-American as well as French and Russian journals and books. Recent articles also include art historical, cultural historical, and urban historical issues. Furthermore, she has published on various issues of European history.
Nic Leonhardt studied Theatre Studies and Audiovisual Media, German Philology and Art History at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Mainz. In her PhD-thesis, Piktoral-Dramaturgie (Pictorial Dramaturgy), she explored the interplay of Visual Culture and Theatre in 19th Century Germany (1869-1899). She worked as a research assistant and associate instructor at the University of Mainz, and the University of Music in Köln, and received grants from the University of Mainz, the DAAD, and the Fulbright Commission. Nic Leonhardt is currently holding a position as research assistant at the University of Music and Theatre, Leipzig. Her research interests and publications include theatre and media history, visual culture, popular culture, censorship, acting theory, and telenovelas. She is currently working on a book on stereography.
Dimitri Liebsch Education in philosophy, history, and German literature. Ph.D. in philosophy (Ruhr-University Bochum, 1999). Working experience as assistant professor, lecturer (in philosophy and social sciences), and journalist. Academic and professional interests: Aesthetics, theory of media, social theory, visual studies, philosophy of film.
Publications: Die Geburt der ästhetischen Bildung aus dem Körper der antiken Plastik (2001), Philosophie des Films. Grundlagentexte (ed., 2005), articles on aesthetics, theory of perception, philosophy of film, Rudolf Arnheim, September 11.