Keywords
Remediation
Disappropriation
Television
social art history John Berger
Remediación
Desapropiación
Televisión
historia social del arte John Berger
Remediação
Desapropriação
Televisão
história social da arte
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Abstract
This article addresses the audiovisual mediations of art History in the television series and book Ways of Seeing (WoS, 1972). We argue that its relevance lies not so much in the reflections it raised as in its attitude towards the possibilities of audiovisual writings, that is, in its artifactual capacity to articulate other kinds of remediations of the images and narratives of art. We evidence this by: 1) situating WoS in the so-called crisis of Art History; 2) discussing conceptual and technical aspects of the struggle of WoS with the canon of Art History starting with its televised intervention; 3) arguing that WoS deauthorized academic Art History with its multimedia and collaborative experiments in writing that favored forms of disappropriation of high culture; and finally 4) elucidating the singularity and limitations of the remediations produced by WoS.
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