Chapter 2. The critical tradition in visual studies

2011 ◽  
pp. 39-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juha Herkman
Keyword(s):  
Visual Studies ◽  
Critical Tradition

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lurie
Keyword(s):  
American Art ◽  
Stanley Kubrick ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Benito Cereno

This introduction orients this book’s argument surrounding history’s visibility. It points to a tradition of visualizing history initiated by D. W. Griffith’s infamous Birth of a Nation and suggests links between it and a later critical tradition of falsely presuming history’s accessibility. It takes up recent challenges to politicized cultural scholarship and identifies the book’s investment in examining the terms on which so-called American art and culture have been defined. Edgar Allan Poe’s Pym and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” offer templates for the later discussions of writers’ and filmmakers’ choice to eschew direct representations of history. It links these moves to New Formalist methodology and places the study’s approach within this field, describing the book’s moves from treating modernist writers to discussing the postmodern cinema of Stanley Kubrick and the Coen brothers. It takes up a tenet of modernist scholarship that questions notions of a putatively transcendent, disembodied subject.

The Baroque as Anti-Classicism: The French Case

2019 ◽  
pp. 622-641
Author(s):  
Larry F. Norman
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
World War ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
French Case

This chapter examines the rising mid-twentieth-century attention to the Baroque as a challenge to “French Classicism.” The concept of the literary Baroque faced strong opposition in France, where it undermined a critical tradition that isolated the “Age of Louis XIV” from European-wide currents. After World War II, the transnational Baroque provided a model for a more cosmopolitan view of the seventeenth century. Its integration into French literary and cultural history, however, reverses established paradigms of cultural evolution and periodization according to which Renaissance Classicism is followed by Counter-Reformation Baroque. This development also raises questions concerning the intellectual and ideological underpinning of the Baroque, including its relation to monarchy and Cartesian modernity. Authors examined include foundational figures of comparative literature (Erich Auerbach, E. R. Curtius, Leo Spitzer, René Wellek), art critics and historians (Eugenio d’Ors, Arnold Hauser, Victor-L. Tapié), and pioneers of the French Baroque (Jean Rousset, Marcel Raymond).

scholarly journals Towards a Kenotic Identity Politics: Migration, Transformation and the Eucharist

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 380
Author(s):  
Matthew John Paul Tan
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Eucharistic Theology ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Massive Influx ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The One

This paper will focus on one element of the pushback against the massive influx of immigrants taken in for humanitarian purposes, namely, an identity-based chauvinism which uses identity as the point of resistance to the perceived dilution of that identity, brought about by the transformation of culture induced by the incorporation of a foreign other. The solution to this perceived dilution is a simultaneous defence of that culture and a demand for a conformity to it. While those in the critical tradition have encouraged a counter-position of revolutionary transformation by the other through ethics, dialogue, or the multitude, such a transformation is arguably impeded by what is ultimately a repetition of the metaphysics of conformity. Drawing on the personalism of Emmanuel Mounier and the Eucharistic theology of Creston Davis and Aaron Riches, this paper submits an alternative identity politics position that completes the revolutionary impulse. Identity here is not the flashpoint of a self-serving conflict, but the launch-point of politics of self-emptying, whose hallmarks include, on the one hand, a never-ending reception of transformation by the other, and on the other hand, an anchoring in the Body of Christ that is at once ever-changing and never-changing.

Witold Gombrowicz's Iconoclasm from a Visual Studies Perspective

2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-497
Author(s):  
Kris Van Heuckelom
Keyword(s):  
Visual Studies

The Critical Tradition of Pentecostalism

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Hollenweger
Keyword(s):  
Critical Tradition

Modification of a personal dosimetry device for logging melanopic irradiance

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 922-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
LLA Price ◽  
A Lyachev
Keyword(s):  
Visual Studies ◽  
Activity Data ◽  
Data Loggers ◽  
Spectral Performance ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Single Sensor ◽  
Personal Dosimetry

Performance characterisations were carried out before and after a modification to the optics of the Condor Instruments’ ActTrust light and activity data loggers to improve the spectral performance for measuring melanopic-weighted irradiance in non-visual studies. The results confirm the intended improvement, so that the device provides the best-known single-sensor match to the melanopic response. In addition, the device includes a separate sensor which remained well-matched for illuminance logging.

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