1st Edition
On Not Looking The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture
Introduction Frances Guerin Part I: Images that Don’t Look 1. Not Looking into the Abyss: The Potentiality to See Daniel Sack 2. The Rest is Noise: On Lossless Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin 3. The Men in the Bathroom: Reflections on William E. Jones’ Tearoom James Polchin Part II: The Privilege of the Other Senses 4. Peripatetic Sculpture: The Exhaustion of Looking in the Presence of Richard Serra’s Promenade Frances Guerin 5. Burrowing Under the Apparent: The Blindfold Drawings of Claude Heath Craig G. Staff Part III: Not Looking at Bodies and Cultures on the Margins 6. ©AMOUFLAGE Alessandra Raengo 7. The Horizon to Come: Planetary Aesthetics in William Kentridge’s Felix in Exile and Galileo Galilei’s Moon Drawings Sonja A.J. Neef 8. Between Looking and Not Looking: Race, Spectacular Scenes, and Counter-Spectacular Effects in Paul Pfeiffer’s Long Count Series Elizabeth Adan Part IV: Institutions Overpower Images 9. Looking At the West Looking Away: Khmer Rouge, Western Blindness, and Documentary Images Stéphanie Benzaquen 10. The "Coffin," the Camera, and the Commodity: Visualizing American Military Dead at Dover Rebecca A. Adelman 11. Lessons from the Life of an Image: Malcolm Browne’s Photograph of Thich Quang Duc’s Self-Immolation Øyvind Vågnes
Biography
Frances Guerin is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts at the University of Kent, UK
