Visuality Reading List

The recommended books can be found on reserve at the Kohler Art Library. They are listed under Jill Casid's Art History 701 Practicum: Bibliography, Historiography, Methods. The Kohler Art Library is located in the Conrad A. Elvehjem Building at 800 University Ave.

1. Introduction

• Mizoeff, N. An Introduction to Visual Culture. 37-64.
• Mitchell, W. J. T., “Showing Seeing.” What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images. 336-56.

2. Pre-Modern and Versions of the Early Modern

• Robert S. Nelson, “Descartes’s Cow and other Domestications of the Visual.” Visuality Before and Beyond the Renaissance: Seeing as Others Saw. Ed. Robert S Nelson. 1-21.
• Lyle Massey, “Perspective Split in Two.” Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective. 111-130.

3. Vision, Science, Spectacle

• Barbara Stafford, “Revealing Technologies/Magical Domains.” Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen. 1-142.
• Jonathan Crary, “Modernity and the Problem of Attention.” Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. 11-81.

4. Slavery and Empire

• Kay Dian Kriz, “Curiosities, Commodities, and Transplanted Bodies in Hans Sloane’s ‘Natural History of Jamaica’.” The William and Mary Quarterly. 3rd series. 57:1 (January 2000): 35-78.
• Marcus Wood, “The Irrecoverable: Representing the ‘Middle Passage’.” Blind Memory. 14-77.

5. Ethics

• Erika Naginski, “Canova’s Penitent Magdalene: On Trauma’s Prehistory.” Trauma and Visuality in Modernity. Eds. Lisa Saltzman and Eric Rosenberg. 51-81.
• Elaine Scarry, “On Beauty and Being Fair.” On Beauty and Being Just. 57-124.

6. Religion

• Finbarr Barry Flood, “Damascus and the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture.” The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture. 184-236.
• Eugene Y. Wang, “Chronotope and Heterotopia.” Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. 317-96.

7. Posthuman

• Jessica Riskin, “Eighteenth-Century Wetware.” Representations 83 (Summer 2003): 97-125.
• Sarah R. Cohen, “Chardin’s Fur: Painting, Materialism, and the Question of Animal Soul.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 38:1 (2004): 39-61.

8. Globalization, Transnationalism and Transculturation

• Arjun Appadurai, “Here and Now.” Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. 1-23.
• Serge Gruzinski, “Melange and Mestizo.” The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization. 17-31.

9. The Senses and the Critique of Ocularcentrism

• Martin Jay, “Dialectic of EnLIGHTenment,” in Downcast Eyes: the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. 83-148.
• Laura U. Marks, “Olfactory Haptics.” Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media. 113-40.