[DOC] Nutshell History of North Carolina; A by Ben Fortson at Arts-Photography

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The first book of its kind; Gestures of Seeing in Film; Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent mediasphere where images ndash; as lenses bearing on their own circumstances ndash; are constantly mobilized to enact symbolic forms of warfare and where they get entangled in all kinds of cultural conflicts and controversies; a turn to the gestural life of images seems to promise a particularly pertinent avenue of intellectual inquiry. The complex gestures of the artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies. In visual art; the gestural appears to be that which intervenes between form and content; materiality and meaning. But as a conceptual force it also impinges upon the very process of seeing itself. As a critical and heuristic trope; the gestural galvanizes many of the most pertinent areas of inquiry in contemporary debates and scholarship in visual culture and related disciplines: ethics (images and their values and affects); aesthetics (from visual essentialism to transesthetics and synesthesia); ecology (iconoclastic gestures and spaces of conflict); and epistemology (questions of the archive; memory and documentation). Offering fresh perspectives on many of these areas;?Gestures of Seeing in Film; Video and Drawing will be intensely awaited by readers from and across several disciplines; such as anthropology; linguistics; performance; theater; film and visual studies.