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Visualidad y materialidad: el problema de la imagen y el (con)texto
Author(s) -
Sergio Martínez Luna
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
visual review international visual culture review / revista internacional de cultura visual
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2695-9631
DOI - 10.37467/gka-revvisual.v1.640
Subject(s) - humanities , philosophy , art , context (archaeology) , geography , archaeology
The article seeks to study the relationship between visuality and materiality. Visual Studies show an increasing interest in understanding the material dimension of images. The article stresses the need to understand the concepts of text and context as negative and problematic. A simple shift from text to context is insufficient for Visual Studies, which consider visuality as a no-self-evident concept. For this reason the validity of the concept is reviewed in order to maintain its critical force. Likewise it is recalled that the concept of text, far from being a tool for epistemological clarification, may end up adding new layers of complexity to research. The paper invites to understand social and narrative practices as articulated with a multitude of domains, realities, and material and social worlds. Accordingly it is argued that the study of the intersections between the material and the visual should abandon any dualistic logic in order to understand them as involved with processes of mutual co-constitution. RESUMEN El articulo pretende estudiar las relaciones entre visualidad y materialidad. Los Estudios Visuales muestran un creciente interes por entender la dimension material de la imagen. El articulo subraya la necesidad de entender los concep-tos de texto y de contexto en su negatividad y problematicidad. Para unos Estudios que consideran la visualidad como un concepto no auto-evidente el simple desplazamiento del texto al contexto resulta insuficiente. Por ello se revisa la validez del concepto de texto para mantener su fuerza critica. Del mismo modo se recuerda que el concepto de contexto, lejos de ser una herramienta de aclaracion epistemologica, puede acabar anadiendo mas capas de complejidad a la investigacion. El articu-lo invita a entender las practicas y narrativas sociales articuladas con una multitud de dominios, realidades y mundos sociales y materiales. De acuerdo con ello se defiende que el estudio de las intersecciones entre lo visual y lo material debe abandonar cualquier logica dualista para entenderlas dentro de procesos de co-constitucion mutua.

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