Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture
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- 1 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Visual Culture
- Vol. 2 (1) , 5-32
- https://doi.org/10.1177/147041290300200101
Abstract
The double question whether visual culture studies is a discipline or an interdisciplinary movement, and which methods are most suited to practice in this field, can only be addressed by way of the object. This article probes the difficulty of defining or delimiting the object of study without the reassuring and widespread visual essentialism that, in the end, can only be tautological.Keywords
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