Theorizing visual studies: writing through the discipline

"This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a truly international, interdisciplinary point of entry into cutting-edge visual studies research. The book is fluid in relation to disciplines; it is frequently inventive in relation to guiding theories; it is unpredictable in its allegiance and interest in the past of the discipline--reflecting the ongoing growth of visual studies."--Publisher description.

How to use this book / James Elkins -- An introduction to the visual studies that is not in this book / James Elkins -- A short introduction to failure / Kristi McGuire -- An introduction to the visual as argument / James Elkins -- Airborne horses / Mike Gibisser -- Anaesthetics / Kristi McGuire -- Animal / Michelle Lindenblatt -- Animations / Nea Ehrlich -- Arial / Arden Stern -- Ars oblivionalis / Thomas Stubblefield -- Artifact / Lucian Gomoll -- Augmented reality / Horea Avram -- Breathing / Vivian Li -- Collecting / Josephine Landback -- Decolonial / Lara Haworth and Nicole Cormaci -- Diaspora / W. Ian Bourland -- Double-consciousness / Cara Caddoo -- Eleventh prismatic / Samantha Topol -- Ephemeral / Cecilia Aldarondo -- Experimental geography / Andrew Wasserman -- Fetish / Johannes Bruder -- Filiation / Simon Ferdinando -- Frame / R.E.H. Gordon -- Iconoclash / Julia Sonnevend -- Imaginary / W. Keith Brown -- Imaginary twin / Kristi McGuire -- Intertitles / Jana Žilová -- Invisibility / Maureen Burns -- Leviathan / Vera Chiquet -- LTTR / Rebecca Vreeland -- Masquerade / Meghan Chandler -- Metadata / Elizabeth Stainforth and David Thom -- Metaphors / Marco Bohr -- Mimicry / J…