Visual Cultures as Objects and Affects

Largely due to the linguistic turn that has dominated the humanities since the mid-twentieth century, many contemporary scholars and artists habitually equate works of art with highly coded texts to be deciphered, deconstructed, or otherwise interpreted. Within this quest to consider art differently, Jorella Andrews and Simon O Sullivan pay attention to the asignifying character of art, or simply its affective qualities.

Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin; Goldsmiths, University of London, UK