CONTENTS :
Introduction ;
1. GRISELDA POLLOCK: Feminism/Foucault—Surveillance/Sexuality ;
2. LISA TICKNER: Men's Work? Masculinity and Modernism ;
3. JOHN TAGG: The Discontinuous City: Picturing and the Discursive Field ;
4. KEITH MOXEY: Hieronymus Bosch and the "World Upside Down": The Case of The Garden of Earthly Delights ;
5. THOMAS CROW: Observations on Style and History in French Painting of the Male Nude, 1785—1794 ;
6. WHITNEY DAVIS: The Renunciation of Reaction in Girodet's Sleep of Endymion ;
7. WOLFGANG KEMP: The Theater of Revolution: A New Interpretation of Jacques-Louis David's Tennis Court Oath ;
8. NORMAN BRYSON: Gericault and "Masculinity" ;
9. ERNST VAN ALPHEN: Strategies of Identification ;
10. KAJA SILVERMAN: Fassbinder and Lacan: A Reconsideration of Gaze, Look, and Image ;
11. CONSTANCE BENLEY: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Study of Popular Culture ;
12. ANDREW ROSS: The Ecology of Images ;
13. MICHAEL ANN HOLLY: Wolfflin and the Imagining of the Baroque ;
14. MIEKE BAL: Dead Flesh, or the Smell of Painting ;
15. DAVID SUMMERS: Form and Gender ;
Index.
From the "blurb":
"We can no longer see, much less teach, transhistorical truths, timeless works of art, and unchanging critical criteria without a highly developed sense of irony about the grand narratives of the past," declare the editors, who also coedited Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation (1990). The field of art history is not unique in finding itself challenged and enlarged by cultural debates over issues of class, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and gender. Visual Culture assembles some of the foremost scholars of cultural studies and art history to explore new critical approaches to a history of representation seen as something different from a history of art."