Farewell to Visual Studies

James Elkins is E. C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gustav Frank is Professor of German at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.Sunil Manghani is Reader in Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Southampton.

• ContentsSeries PrefaceIntroductions First Introduction: Starting PointsJames ElkinsSecond Introduction: Affect, Agency, and Aporia: An Indiscipline with Endemic Ambivalences and a Lack of PicturesGustav FrankThird Introduction: Visual Studies, or, This is Not a DiagramSunil ManghaniThe Seminars1Histories: Visuelle Kultur2Histories: Anglo-American Visual Studies, 1989–19993Histories: 2000–20104Histories: The Present Decade5Histories: Bildwissenschaft6Image, Meaning, and Power7A General Theory of Visual Culture8The Political9Science Studies10The Place of the Image11EnvoiAssessmentsPrefaceSunil ManghaniHans Dam ChristensenEmmanuel AlloaNell AndrewMartin A. BergerMarta ZarzyckaTheodore GracykTom HolertJulia OrellKıvanç KılınçMark LinderMichele EmmerTerri WeissmanJohanna DruckerVanessa R. SchwartzBernd StieglerLisa ZaherStephan Günzel Bernhard J. Dotzler Sjoukje van der MeulenCharles W. HaxthausenAsbjørn GrønstadØyvind VågnesMark ReinhardtCharlotte KlonkYolaine EscandeLinda Báez RubíMiguel Á. Hernández-Navarro Isabelle DecobecqTirza True LatimerAnna NotaroNotes on the ContributorsIndex

“Farewell to Visual Studies is astonishing and impressive. It opens the field to self-critical questions about its history, objects, and methods (in contrast to art history and German Bildwissenschaft). The statements of the editors at the beginning, the open-minded and self-critical discussion among the participants in the Chicago Seminars, and the contributions of the experts at the end deliver a deep impression of how such a self-assessment may lead to new shores.”—Martina Sauer, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik (DGS)