On Not Looking The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture [Hardcover]

On Not Looking:The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culturefocuses on the image, and our relationship to it, as a site of not looking. The collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers often do not look at the images, and in other cases, we are encouraged by the context of exhibition not to look at images. Contributors discuss an array of imagesphotographs, films, videos, press images, digital images, paintings, sculptures, and drawingsfrom everyday life, museums and galleries, and institutional contexts such as the press and political arena. The themes discussed include: politics of institutional exhibition and perception of images; censored, repressed, and banned images; transformations to practices of not looking as a result of new media interventions; images in history and memory; not looking at images of bodies and cultures on the margins; responses to images of trauma; and embodied vision.

Introduction Frances Guerin  Part I: Images that Dont Look  1. Not Looking into the Abyss: The Potentiality to See Daniel Sack  2. The Rest is Noise: OnLossless Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin  3. The Men in the Bathroom: Reflections on William E. Jones Tearoom James Polchin  Part II: The Privilege of the Other Senses  4. Peripatetic Sculpture: The Exhaustion of Looking in the Presence of Richard Serras Promenade Frances Guerin  5. Burrowing Under the Apparent: The Blindfold Drawings of Claude Heath Craig G. Staff  Part III: Not Looking at Bodies and Cultures on the Margins  6. ?AMOUFLAGE Alessandra Raengo  7. The Horizon to Come: Planetary Aesthetics in William Kentridges Felix in Exileand Galileo Glóí