Reception to celebrate the publication of Journal of Visual Culture’s Ways of Seeing 40th Anniversary Issue Saturday 8 September, 4pm King’s College, University of London The launch coincides with the 3 day Ways of Seeing John Berger conference organized by King’s and the British Library. Editorial Raiford Guins Penguins are often reproduced with words around … Continue reading
Editorial Raiford Guins Penguins are often reproduced with words around them Texts Ben Highmore ‘Then Turn the Page’: Berger by the Book Griselda Pollock Muscular Defences Guy Julier Economies of Seeing Martin Jay Ways of Seeing at Forty Jennifer A. González Calculated Oversight? Resisting Race in Ways of Seeing Jill H. Casid Cis Mieke Bal … Continue reading
Thu 12 Jul 2012, 6:30pm Free Word Lecture Theatre Hilary Powell and Isaac Marrero present a series of creative critical responses to the iconography and language of the forthcoming games from their book The Art of Dissent: London’s Olympic State (June 2012, published by Marshgate Press and designed by See Studio). The London 2012 Olympics … Continue reading
Articles Janet Wolff After Cultural Theory: The Power of Images, the Lure of Immediacy Abstract Full Text (PDF) References Request Permissions Winnie Won Yin Wong The Panda Man and the Anti-Counterfeiting Hero: Art, Activism and Appropriation in Contemporary China Abstract Full Text (PDF) References Request Permissions Nicole Starosielski Warning: Do Not Dig’: Negotiating the Visibility … Continue reading
“This special issue of the Journal of Visual Culture is a remarkable and much needed addition to the critical analysis and development of translation as a metaphor for creative acts and products. […] I can wholeheartedly recommend ‘Acts of Translation’ to anybody interested in the critical engagement with cultures, whether historical or contemporary, visual or … Continue reading
… in a new newspaper. ANIMALS – CATS TODAY 17.7.79 SIAMESE KITTEN declared an illegal immigrant when after being put in the wrong aircraft at Toronto, she arrived at Birmingham Airport. BIRMINGHAM – HANDSWORTH TODAY 13.7.81 RIOTS. CONT. g/v’s broken shop windows and interiors of looted shops. g/v’s policing in Handsworth streets. Interview with black … Continue reading
Ghosts The second issue of Paperweight is out! Ghosts attempts to grapple with the elusive ghosts of visual and material culture. With a distinctly archival flavour, our contributors have attempted to deal with that which isn’t quite there; or that which once was and has now evaporated; or that which we thought never existed but … Continue reading
In 2008, Journal of Visual Culture inaugurated a new Events section, with a multi-authored critical dissection of Documenta 12 (vol.7, no.2). The move is a response to a shift over the past few decades, which has seen the exhibition and/as event encroaching on the territory once steadfastly occupied by the academy and its related publications, … Continue reading
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