Talk:Visual culture

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Visual culture is related to visual sociology. There is debate over how art history and visual culture are distinct from one another.

Visual Studies, an interdisciplinary field, aims to integrate and expand the already existing disciplines of art history, film and media studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and others. Though often engaging objects or artifacts included within these fields, it can often incorporate those overlooked or excluded by more traditional fields of study. Often criticized for its lack of historical rigor, this is not necessarily intrinsic to the field, and many of its practitioners remain rigorous in their historical foundations and object analysis. Because visual studies aims not just to fill in gaps to challenge disciplinary boundaries, it can also be said to have political implications. In fact, Visual Studies is often quite closely linked to engagements with Critical Theory. Scholarship in Visual Studies tends to be more thematically, rather than artist-, style-, or filmmaker-based, partly due to its engagement with questions concerning biography and the author function (Barthes, Foucault), but also due to its comparable openness toward broader questions concerning theory and technology. Scholars working in Visual Studies engage with far-reaching questions from temporality and cinema to biopower and feminism to nationalist cinema to video games and new media -- the list goes on. Most importantly, with widespread changes taking place throughout the Humanities, Visual Studies appears to be a growing program of study, rather than discipline persay.

removed it because I cannot understand what the writer was trying to say and it contained spelling mistakes such as persay--Jahsonic 19:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Isn't John Berger indebted to Walter Benjamin far more than Lacan? As such, it's probably more appropriate to suggest a connection with British media and cultural studies (or just cultural studies) rather than with Lacan. Also, what about Gombrich? Comments, anyone?? Kris Erickson (talk) 13:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

In addition to Gombrich, there must needs be mention of Hal Foster, Jonathan Crary, Martin Jay, Erwin Panofsky, and perhaps also David Levin and Mieke Bal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.49.252.53 (talk) 12:07, 11 March 2008 (UTC)