1st Edition

Visualizing Theory Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994

Edited By Lucien Taylor Copyright 1994

    Visualizing Theory is a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in Visual Anthropology Review between 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Reclaiming visual anthropology as a space for the critical representation of visual culture from the naive realist and exoticist inclinations that have beleaguered practitioners' efforts to date, Visualizing Theory is a major intervention into this growing field.

    1 The Ethnographic and the Isographic 2 Surrealism, Vision and Cultural Criticism 3 Modernity's Mediations: The Scopic and the Haptic 4 Visualizing Theory: 'In Dialogue'

    Biography

    Editor of V.A.R., Lucien Taylor is a filmmaker and photographer living in Berkeley, California. His two most recent productions, co-directed with Ilisa Barbash, are Made in U.S.A., a film about sweatshops, child labor and homework in the Los Angeles garment industry, and In and Out of Africa, an ethnographic documentary about fakery, taste and racial politics in the African art market.