Art History as Ekphrasis – Jas´ Elsner
Jas´ Elsner argues in his 2010 article 'Art History as Ekphrasis' that Art History is a form of ekphrasis as is any translation of the sensual world into language. His fundamental…
The Male Gaze
The Male gaze is a term discussed by Laura Mulvey in her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975). It is used to describe when the audience is put into…
The Pictorial Turn
WJT Mitchell first used 'pictorial turn' in a 1992 article for ArtForum but expanded upon his arguments more fully in his influential book 'Picture Theory' (1994) The 'turn' part was…