Vol. 2 No. 2 (2008)
Artigos gerais

Visual Culture: definitions, scope, debates

Rosana Horio Monteiro
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
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Published 2014-07-31

Keywords

  • Art history,
  • Visual culture,
  • Cultural studies.

How to Cite

Monteiro, R. H. (2014). Visual Culture: definitions, scope, debates. Domínios Da Imagem, 2(2), 129–134. https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-9126.2008v2n2p129

Abstract

This paper is a still work in progress that investigates issues related to the concept of visual culture and its connection with the history of art. Is it an emerging discipline, a topic of research, an area or sub-area of cultural studies? What is the status of the artistic object within the visual culture? I discuss particularly the role of the "visual culture questionnaire" to the development of the area and the debate around the concept of visual culture. The questionnaire was sent to a variety of researchers, critics and artists from North America and the answers were published in a 1996 edition of the journal October organized by Rosalind Krauss and Hal Foster.

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