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Visual Culture, Art History and the Humanities

University of Idaho, USA, ivanc{at}uidaho.edu, ivan.castaneda{at}comcast.net

This essay will discuss the need for the humanities to address visual culture studies as part of its interdisciplinary mission in today's university. Although mostly unnoticed in recent debates in the humanities over historical and theoretical frameworks, the relatively new field of visual culture has emerged as a corrective to a growing disciplinary territorialism on the part of art history. A study of the theoretical purview of visual culture reveals that it in truth encompasses a continuation of art history's initial interdisciplinary humanist project of cultural critique initiated by Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky. This article will argue that art history's inability to fully appreciate visual culture's relevance in today's research and pedagogical settings has given the humanities the opportunity to address a field which is rooted in the humanities' project of interdisciplinary inquiry.

Key Words: art history • critical theory • cultural studies • humanities • visual culture

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol. 8, No. 1, 41-55 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1474022208098301


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