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1. Seeing Differently

   A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts

   By Amelia Jones

   Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Amelia Jones

   Series: In Sight: Visual Culture

   Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized over the past forty years. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this second edition of The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader assembles a wide array of writings...

   Published January 6th 2010 by Routledge
3. Self/Image

   Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject

   By Amelia Jones

   Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original book explores how technology has affected artists' abilities and forms to express themselves. From analogue photography to more recent artistic...

   Published October 12th 2006 by Routledge
4. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader

   Edited by Amelia Jones

   Series: In Sight: Visual Culture

   Bringing together key writings on art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields, this key reader combines classic texts by leading feminist thinkers with six previously unpublished polemical new pieces. It explores how issues of race, class, nationality and sexuality,...

   Published November 27th 2002 by Routledge
5. Performing the Body/Performing the Text

   Edited by Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson Nfa, Andrew Stephenson

   This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality...

   Published May 19th 1999 by Routledge