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1408Whitney Davis's General Theory of Visual Culture (review)College Art Association Books Reviews. 2012.This is a brief essay on Whitney Davis's book. A shorter version, edited down by the College Art Association, is on their online book reviews site (protected by a paywall).
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72What is an Image? (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2011.Issues discussed include concepts such as "image" and "picture" in and outside the West; semiotics; whether images are products of discourse; religious meanings; and the ethics of viewing"--Provided by publisher.
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93On Pictures and the Words That Fail ThemJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57 (4): 471-473. 1999.
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Different horizons for the concept of the imageZeitschrift für Ästhetik Und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 43 (1): 29-46. 1998.
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1219What does Peirce's Sign System Have to Say to Art History?Culture, Theory, and Critique 44 (1): 5-22. 2003.Peirce is far too strange for the uses to which he is put in art history. This is a plea to art historians for a moratorium on Peirce citations.
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115Metonymy and Transition in Carrier's WritingThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 32 (4): 35. 1998.
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76A Thought Experiment, for a Book to Be Called "Failure in Twentieth-Century Art"The Journal of Aesthetic Education 32 (4): 43. 1998.
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75Ten Reasons Why E. H. Gombrich is not Connected to Art HistoryHuman Affairs 19 (3): 304-310. 2009.Ten Reasons Why E. H. Gombrich is not Connected to Art History This is a speculative essay on the place of E. H. Gombrich in art history. Gombrich is universally known, and still often studied at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is indispensable for the historiography of the discipline. But at the same time, he is not often cited, and his work is not usually part of the ongoing conversations of the current state of art history or visual studies. This brief essay questions that condition…Read more
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105Logic and images in art historyPerspectives on Science 7 (2): 151-180. 1999.: This essay is an attempt to see how some of Galison's ideas and analyses look from the vantage of art history. If there's to be dialogue between the history of science and the history of art, it will be necessary to find historically recognizable senses for words like "logic" and "homologous." I also propose how Galison's kinds of images might fit into larger classifications of images known to the history of art
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65Aesthetics and the two cultures : why art and science should be allowed to go their separate waysIn Francis Halsall, Julia Jansen & Tony O’Connor (eds.), Rediscovering Aesthetics: Transdisciplinary Voices from Art History, Philosophy, and Art Practice, Stanford University Press. pp. 34-50. 2008.
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