Définitions de la culture visuelle II : Utopies modernistes -Postformalisme et pureté de la vision = Definitions of Visual Culture II : Modernist Utopias - Postformalism and Pure Visuality

Abstract

Nine texts (one of which is in French only) tackle Michael Fried's positions towards Greenbergian formalism, the avatars of the "visual object" and ocularcentrism, the meaning attached to picture hanging in an exhibition, strategies of mimicry and sexual identity, the "silence of the visual artwork", Barthes' conception of the filmic image, and the properties of Euroethnic art. Biographical notes on the authors. Circa 200 bibl. ref