Susanne von Falkenhausen
Author
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
»The concept of visuality - t« his book is the first study to compare the scholarly act of seeing in art history and visual culture studies, two disciplines who have been debating this concept for decades. Susanne von Falkenhausen reveals the concepts of vision and seeing that underwrite these competing but complementary approaches to art, image, and society. Stepping beyond disciplinary hostility, she analyses a wide range of key texts spanning...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Technical censorship of pictures is omnipresent and invisible at the same time. Content moderation on social media and automatic deletions by algorithms have given rise to a new union of human and non-human protagonists. While traditional institutions of censorship regulated the impact of dangerous pictures based on legal and religious norms, automated mechanisms controlled by international corporations do so today. In the public sphere of technical...