Visual Studies

Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).

An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, E. Coccia, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.

An essay on the the appearance of the image.

This brilliant work studies the notion of modernity as it's been defined at the end of the XIXth century, especially through the analyse of the links between the visual culture and several main social debates of the time such as sexuallity, urban crowd, riots and social control mechanisms, the Republic and the Church, nationalism and militarism.

A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.

A critical reflection on memory and images through a collection of rare photography books produced as part of liberation movements in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa between the 1960s and 1980s, reflecting on the importance of visual culture in anti-colonial struggles and the early years of independence, between activism and formal experimentation closely linked to armed struggles.

A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.

Eyal and Ines Weizman explore the history of the before-and-after image, from its origins in 19th-century Paris to today's satellite surveillance.