Concise Companion to Visual Culture

A. Joan Saab is the Susan B. Anthony Professor of Art and Art History and the Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, University of Rochester, USA. She is the author of For the Millions: American Art and Culture Between the Wars, Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See, and the digital project Searching for Siqueiros. Aubrey Anable is Associate Professor of Film Studies, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect. Her research on digital media history and aesthetics, video games, and theories of affect has appeared in the Feminist Media Histories, Afterimage, Television & New Media, Ada, and various edited collections. Catherine Zuromskis is Associate Professor, School for Photographic Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. She is the author of Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images and The Factory. Her writings on photography, film, and visual culture have appeared in American Quarterly, Archives of American Art Journal, Art Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, Photography & Culture, Criticism, and various edited volumes.

• Acknowledgments xiNotes on Contributors xiiiIntroduction 1A. Joan Saab, Aubrey Anable, and Catherine ZuromskisPart I Scenes from the Institutionalization of the Field1 Practices of Visual Culture Pedagogy 9Lisa Cartwright and Marita Sturken2 Horizontal Thinking and the Emergence of Visual Culture 21Louis Kaplan3 An Interview with W. J. T. Mitchell 394 A Conversation with Douglas Crimp 455 A Dialogue 51Richard Meyer and Jon Davies6 Scene Selection: Objects Lost and Found 67Sharon WillisPart II Key ConceptsA. HistoriesIntroduction 79A. Joan Saab7 The Archive 81Jane Blocker8 Observance 97Marquard Smith9 Temporality 117Joel Burges10 Ephemerality 137Kate Palmer AlbersB. EcologiesIntroduction 155Catherine Zuromskis11 Environment 157Ross Barrett12 Architectures 177Irene Cheng13 Sites 201Norman Vorano14 Vernaculars 221James J. HodgeC. MediationIntroduction 239Aubrey Anable15 The Document 241Franny Nudelman16 Form 259Eugenie Brinkema17 Play 277Braxton Soderman18 Memes 295Margot BoumanD. AgenciesIntroduction 313A. Joan Saab19 Subjects 315Eve Meltzer20 Making 335Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson21 Institutions 357Sarah E. K. Smith22 Species 375Gloria C. S. KimE. PoliticsIntroduction 391Catherine Zuromskis23 The Social 393Lane Relyea24 Identities 403Derek Conrad Murray25 Representation 421Chad Elias26 Feelings 441Scott C. Richmond27 Action 459T. J. DemosIndex 477