A. Joan Saab - A Concise Companion to Visual Culture

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• Aarseth, Espen,
• actant,
  • nonhuman, 380
• activism, 462
  • AIDS,
  • and artistic creativity,
  • direct see
  • environmental, 461
  • feminist, 309
• Addario, Lynsey, 252
• Adler, Amy,
• Adorno, Theodor,
• aesthetics, 472
  • architectural,
  • binary oppositions,
  • DIY,
  • feminist, 451
  • impersonality,
  • and personal preferences,
  • philosophical, 443
  • pictorial,
  • and politics,
  • queer,
  • radical formalist,
  • selfie,
  • subjectivity,
  • universality,
  • visual cultural,
• affect, 449
  • aesthetics,
  • and animated GIFs,
  • Black,
  • and form,
  • language of,
  • management,
  • and memes,
  • memorializing,
  • networks,
  • and relationality,
  • theory, 454
  • unreflective,
• affectivity, 450
• Afghanistan, US action in,
  • Tim Hetheringtons photojournalism,
• African American art, 410
  • Harlem,
  • postBlack, 407
• African Americans,
  • artists, 410
  • selfdepreciation,
  • see also
• Afterimage,
• Agence France Musums,
• agency,
  • see also
• Agerra y Arcas, Blaise, Physiognomys New Clothes,
• Ahmed, Sarah,
• AIDS,
  • and activism,
  • intellectual effect, 63
• AIDS Timeline, 63
• Alaimo, Stacey,
• Albright, Jonathan,
• Alexander, Gregory,
• Alexander, Michelle, 72
• algorithms,
  • facial recognition, 433
  • objectivity,
  • reliance on,
• Allan, Alasdair, The Faustian Bargain of the Maker, 345
• allegory, use of
  • cinema,
  • memes,
• Alliance for Networking Visual Culture,
• Alloway, Laurence, 25
  • Artists as Consumers,
  • on cultural elitism,
  • Getty Research Institute papers, 24
  • long front of culture concept,
• Amazon,
  • Alexa,
  • Rekognition,
• American Reflexxx,
• Amin, Kadji,
• Amnesia,
• Amoore, Louise,
• Anable, Aubrey,
• Andrejevic, Mark,
• Annenberg, Walter,
• Anthropocene, 463
• Antick, Paul, itourist? Journeys through the Holocaust,
• Antin, David,
  • Television, Videos Frightful Parent, 324
• antisemitism,
• API Clarifai app,
• Apocalypse Now,
• Appiah, Anthony, 417
• Apple devices,
  • software,
• architectural drawings,
• architectural materials,
  • and class,
  • wood, 196
• architecture
  • Arts and Crafts see
  • designs see
  • history, 180
  • materiality, 181
    • see also
  • and visual culture, 197
• archive, 95
  • Internet,
  • and museums, 87
  • and performance art,
  • queer,
  • and visual studies, 74
• Aristotle, Metaphysics,
• Arnett, Chuck,
• Arora, Gabo,
• Art in America,
• art appreciation
  • connoisseurship,
  • elite experience,
  • informational approach,
  • see also
• Art and Queer Culture (Meyer and Lord), 56
• art brut,
• Artforum,
• art history, 418
  • in British art schools,
  • conflict with visual culture see
  • ethics, 404
  • Eurocentrism,
  • feminist,
  • hierarchies,
  • landscapes,
  • and linear time,
  • Marxist turn,
  • methodology,
  • modernist,
  • queering,
  • and racism, 408
  • Renaissance,
  • scholars, diversity of,
  • and selfreflection,
• art historyvisual culture conflicts,
  • in October,
• artificial intelligence (AI) systems,
  • bias,
  • biometric,
  • deep neural networks (DNN),
  • disobedience,
  • facial recognition,
  • operational processes,
  • speculative, 382
  • see also
• art images, digitization of, 59
• Art in the Making (Adamson and BryanWilson), 350
• art market,
  • as investment choice,
• art photography,
  • exhibitions,
  • see alsoindividual photographers
• art practice,
  • combine paintings,
  • and critical theory,
  • feminist,
  • flatness, 27
  • homoerotic see
  • installations see
  • materiality,
  • performance,
  • photography see
  • political,
  • realism,
  • researchbased,
  • see alsoindividual artists
• art schools,
• Arts and Crafts movement,
  • Californian,
• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (Tsing et al.),
• Art of the Western World,
• Ashmolean Museum,
• astronaut.io,
• authorship, artistic,
  • collective,
  • distributed,
  • and originality,
• autobiography,
• Autodissociate.me, 232
• automation,
  • and artificial intelligence,
• Ayre, Robert,

• Baetens, Jan,
• Bailey, Kenneth,
• Bal, Mieke,
  • Visual Essentialism and the Object of Visual Culture, 406
• Balfe, Judith H.,
• Banham, Reyner,
• Barad, Karen,
• Barr, Alfred H.,
• Barthes, Roland,
  • Camera Lucida, 329
  • Death of the Author,
  • From Work to Text, 288
  • Mythologies,
• Bataille, Georges,
• Battcock, Gregory, The New Art,
• Baudrillard, Jean, 399
• Bazin, Andr,
• Beard, James Henry, 172
  • The Ohio Land Speculator, 172
• Beaverton, Origen,
• Bedingfield, Natasha,
• Benjamin, Walter,
  • Short History of Photography, A,
  • Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The,
• Bennett, Jane,
• Berger, John,
  • Ways of Seeing,
• Berlant, Lauren,
  • attachment,
  • exclusions,
  • genres,
  • the historical present,
  • lateral agency,
• Bertillon, Alphonse,
• Beuys, Joseph,
• Bibliothque Nationale,
  • Resnais documentary,
• biocybernetics, 40
• biomedical imaging,
• Birmingham School for Social Research,
  • Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies,
• Black art,
  • see also
• Blacker house,
• Black Lives Matter movement,
• Blackness, 418
  • concept of, 407
  • curation of,
  • liquid,
  • representation, 434
  • as social symbolism,
  • use value,
  • visibility,
  • see also
• Blake, William, 42
• Blockadia, 471
• Bodgery, The,
• Bogost, Ian,
• Bollmer, Grant,
• Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation (BBTC),
• Bond, Mary,
• BorchJacobsen, Mikkel,
• Bourdieu, Pierre,
• boyd, danah,
• Brabazon, James,
• Brandis, Dietrich,
• Bratton, Benjamin,
• Bridle, James, 146
• Briggs, Joseph, 165
• Brinkema, Eugenie, The Forms of the Affects, 262
• British Empire,
• Bro, Susan,
• broadcast media,
• Bronx Documentary Center (BDC), 256
• Brooks, Cleanth, The WellWrought Urn,
• Broomberg, Adam, 253
• Brown, Eric,
• Brown, Nathan,
• Brown, Wendy,
  • Regulating Diversion, 411
• Bryant, Raymond,
• Buchanan, D. W.,