Recent Research & Reference Articles

1. Recommend to your Librarian: Ethics and Images of Pain

   Few phenomena are as formative of our experience of the visual world as displays of suffering. Engaging with a wide range of visual media--from painting, theater, and sculpture, to photography, movie, and video--this interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars of visual culture offers a reappraisal of the increasingly complex relationship between images of pain and the ethics of viewing.

2. Recommend to your Librarian: Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

   With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. What are the key moments in the genealogy of the Western image which might illuminate the present status of the image? And what exactly is the situation to which we have arrived as far as the image is concerned? These are the questions guiding the reflections in this book.

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   Fifty Key Texts in Art History

   Now available in paperback, Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the central and emerging themes, issues and debates within Art History as an increasingly expansive and globalized discipline.

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   The Pictorial Turn

   This seminal collection of essays is the first to be devoted to the pictorial turn. It brings together theorists from across the humanities and social sciences with a paleontologist and practising artists. Together they consider the relation between pictures and images, the power of landscape, the life of images, and the pictorial uncanny amongst many other things.