Beyond visuality: review on materiality and affect

Art history, as practiced in the United States, is a highly self-reflective discipline that privileges the tracing of genealogies, methodical clarification, and critical positioning. Within the scholarly community there is a sense of obligation to share in debate on topics considered relevant to the present and to make one’s position explicit. One of the most persistent debates over the past few decades has been the visual nature of spectatorship. Studies on the changing historical conditions...