INVISIBLECULTURE: ISSUE FIVE -- INVISIBLE CULTURE

[Lucy Curzon]

PLEASE FORWARD - INVISIBLE CULTURE - ISSUE 5 (WINTER 2003)
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The editors of Invisible Culture are pleased to announce the release of

ISSUE 5: Visual Culture and National Identity

Edited by Lucy Curzon

<http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html>

Increasingly, within the domains of film studies, art history, and 
cultural and communication studies, the role of national identity as 
a component of visual analysis has become paramount. The work of 
Timothy Barringer, Robert Burgoyne, David Peters Corbett, Darrell 
William Davis, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Sarah Street, and Janet Wolff, 
amongst others, has demonstrated the importance of including, for 
example, ideas of “Englishness” or “Americanness” in the discussion 
of painting, photography, and cinema. The purpose of this issue of 
Invisible Culture, therefore, is to investigate how visual culture 
can be analyzed as an expression of national identity, including how 
questions of national identity are negotiated through different forms 
of visual culture. Visual culture, in this context, is understood not 
as a mirror that reflects national identity, but rather a complex 
venue for its interpretation – a site through which populations come 
into consciousness as members of a particular community.

The articles included in this issue are:

Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medical Images,
Memory, and Identity in America
by J.T.H. Connor and Michael G. Rhode
Saving the Other/Rescuing the Self:
Promethean Aspirations in Mikhail Kalatozov's Sol Svanetii
by Daniel Humphrey
A Case Study in the Construction of Place:
Boundary Management as Theme and Strategy in
Canadian Art and Life
by Gaile McGregor
Incarnate Politics: The Rhetorics of German Reunification
in the Architecture of Berlin
by Daniela Sandler
Inventing Wifredo Lam: The Parisian
Avant-Garde’s Primitivist Fixation
by Michele Greet

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Past issues of Invisible Culture include:  "To Incorporate Practice" 
(Issue 4) "Time and the Work" (Issue 3) "Interrogating Subcultures" 
(Issue 2), and "The Worlding of Cultural Studies" (Issue 1).

Invisible Culture has been in operation since 1998, in association 
with the Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of 
Rochester.
The present editors, Margot Bouman, Lucy Curzon, T'ai Smith, and 
Catherine Zuromskis, have revised the journal's original mission 
statement, with the goal of reaching a broader range of disciplines.

The journal is dedicated to explorations of the material and 
political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which 
cultural objects and
communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they 
emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction 
to which they contribute.

As the title suggests, Invisible Culture problematizes the 
unquestioned alliance between culture and visibility, specifically 
visual culture and
vision. Cultural practices and materials emerge not solely in the 
visible world, but also in the social, temporal, and theoretical 
relations that
define the invisible. Our understanding of Cultural Studies, finally, 
maintains that culture is fugitive and is constantly renegotiated.

You are invited to submit articles (no more than 6000 words), brief 
reviews of recent books (500-700 words), or other projects that 
consider
any aspect of visual culture.