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Transmission Image: Visual Translation and Cultural Agency
Editor: Birgit Mersmann and Alexandra Schneider
Date Of Publication: Feb 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0005-1
Isbn: 1-4438-0005-8
Transmission Image: Visual Translation and Cultural Agency offers a challenging survey of the burgeoning debate about visual culture in a global perspective.

Bringing together scholarly perspectives on places ranging from China and India to Nigeria, and from the Philippines and Syria to Germany, this volume proposes a truly global outlook on the study of visual culture in both a contemporary and an historical perspective. Addressing key theoretical issues, the contributors cover a wide range of art forms and visual media, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and its impact on the study of visual culture and globalization.

Birgit Mersmann is professor of Non-Western and European Art at the Jacobs University Bremen, and Alexandra Schneider lecturer at the Film Studies Department of Free University Berlin.

Alexandra Schneider is Lecturer at the Film Studies Department of the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. She has published a book on home movies (Die Stars sind wir. Marburg: Schüren, 2004) and co-edited several books, including: Flugbilder—Kinobilder vom Fliegen. Muenster: Lit Verlag (2008, forthcoming) and Import—Export. India. Germany. Austria. Berlin: Parthas (2005). Her work has been published in Visual Anthropology, Film History and Montage/av.

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:

Nancy Adajania, Heike Behrend, Hans Belting, Peter J. Bräunlein, Markus Buschhaus, Iris Därmann, Martin Gieselmann, Simone Grießmayer, Anne von der Heiden, Asko Lehmuskallio, Birgit Mersmann, and Beat Wyss.

"In the enormous literature on worldwide practices of art, it can often seem that the greatest challenges are in describing the distances between visual cultures. But there is also a large distance between Anglo-American and German-language scholarship. The English-language project of postcolonial studies is not as developed in German, and conversely the careful, technical discussion of image reception is not as often found in Anglo-American writing. This book is a very welcome bridge, combining attention to the precise construction of images with discussion of identity, gender, and ethnicity."

- Prof. James Elkins, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism Department of Visual and Critical Studies School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

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