Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture Export

@article{citeulike:1220003, 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.}, author = {Bal, Mieke}, citeulike-article-id = {1220003}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://vcu.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/1/5}, day = {1}, journal = {Journal of Visual Culture}, keywords = {visual, visualculture}, month = {April}, number = {1}, pages = {5--32}, posted-at = {2009-01-10 23:22:21}, priority = {2}, title = {Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture}, url = {http://vcu.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/1/5}, volume = {2}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1220003 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1220003 N2 - 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. IS - 1 JF - Journal of Visual Culture EP - 32 TI - Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture VL - 2 SP - 5 KW - visual KW - visualculture AU - Bal, Mieke PY - 2003/04/01/ UR - http://vcu.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/1/5 ER -