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Visual Culture and Art Theory

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This cluster of papers explores the interdisciplinary study of visual representation and communication, encompassing topics such as visual culture, intermediality, ekphrasis, iconic turn, media studies, sensory studies, cultural studies, art history, semiotics, and photography.

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intermediality; text and image; image theory; ekphrasis; visuality; poetry and painting; iconology; visual poetry; Aby Warburg; visual studies; Georges Didi-Huberman; philosophy of image; painting and literature; Erwin Panofsky; text-image relations; art history methodology; history of images; poetry and visual art; art history theory; film and painting; interart relations; literature and visual arts; history of art historiography; W. J. T. Mitchell; image studies

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Morton address: 38285030451897876 · morton4x16-v1

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