Special 2002 VRA Bulletin
Issue
Call for Articles
Commemorative 20th Anniversary 2002 VRA
Bulletin Special Issue
The Visual Resources Association will be observing its twentieth
anniversary in 2002. To commemorate its two decades of
existence, a 2002 special issue of the VRA Bulletin will be
devoted to a series of articles addressing the theme of "Documenting
Visual Culture." It is intended that these articles will
provide insight into how the "visual" has been documented in the
past, how it is being documented in the present, or how it will be
documented in the future.
Some possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited, to
the following:
* What are we documenting and why?
* How are historical collections being preserved and how is access
to them changing?
* How have different media influenced what is being documented?
* What processes are being developed and implemented to standardize
and share visual information?
* How has non-art visual culture influenced art documentation and
vice-versa?
* What part has the visual resources community played in documenting
visual culture? What part has the academic community?
* How have documentary methods changed?
* Can we document such concepts as the "other," the "gaze,"
the "canon," the "object"?
* How do/will text and image intersect in the visual resources
collection, the library, or the digital archive?
* What is "visual culture" in the new millennium?
* From Rosetta Stone to digital file: what will be around in the
next thousand years?
Please send an abstract (e-mail attachment
or hardcopy) of no more than 150 words of your proposed article by
March 1 to John Taormina, Editor, VRA Bulletin, Dept. of Art
and Art History, Duke University, Box 90764, Durham, North Carolina,
27708-0764; tel: 919-684-2501; fax: 919-684-4398; e-mail:
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John J. Taormina
Curator of Visual Resources
Dept. of Art and Art History
Duke University
Box 90764
Durham NC 27708-0764
Tel: 919-684-2501
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