The editors of Visual Resources are pleased to announce the publication of a
new special double issue, "Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary Technologies
in Religious and Cultural Contexts" -
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/gvir-si4.asp.
Lisa Bitel, Professor of History and Religion at the University of Southern
California, who served as guest editor, offers this description: "This
special issue of *Visual Resources* tackles an enduring psychological and
spiritual dilemma: How can we represent the invisible? How do we prove or
disprove the validity what others see but we ourselves cannot? Articles in
the volume focus on Christian contexts, tracing the ways that visual
thinkers of Western society have approached the problem of visualizing the
invisible across continents and over centuries. Together, these
interdisciplinary studies of religious vision suggest useful new
perspectives on the relation of art, aesthetics, science, and faith in our
own historical moment of surging religiosity and globalizing visual
culture."
Below is a summary listing of the contents of the issue. For free access to
the abstracts of the articles, please visit
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g910561939~db=all
This special double issue is available for single purchase at a special
price through the publisher's Web site.
VISUAL RESOURCES: An International Journal of Documentation
Vol. XXV, Nos. 1-2 (ISSN 0197-3762)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Editorial: Visions, Ghosts, Spirits, and Art
BOARD-APPROVED SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE
Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary Technologies in Religious and Cultural
Contexts
3 Lisa Bitel, Introduction: Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary
Technologies in Religious and Cultural Contexts
7 Andrew Fogleman, Finding a Middle Way: Late Medieval Naturalism and
Visionary Experience
29 Dallas G. Denery II, Protagoras and the Fourteenth-Century Invention
of Epistemological Relativism
53 Luis Corteguera, Talking Images in the Spanish Empire
69 Lisa Bitel with images by Matt Gainer, Looking the Wrong Way:
Authenticity and Proof of Religious Vision
93 Roberto Lint Sagarena, Making a There There: Marian Muralism and
Devotional Streetscapes
109 Daniel Wojcik, Spirits, Apparitions, and Traditions of Supernatural
Photography
137 Ann Taves, Channeled Apparitions: On Visions that Morph and Categories
that Slip
153 William A. Christian, Jr., AFTERWORD: Islands in the Sea: The Public
and Private Distribution of Knowledge of Religious Visions
For more information about VR and our previous publication history, please
visit http://www.mindspring.com/~sundt-vr/ for the complete tables of
contents and list of special issues, in addition to information about the
journal, including subscriptions.
Through special arrangements with the journal's publisher, Taylor
& Francis/Routledge, we have been able to secure a reduced rate for
individual subscribers who are members of the College Art Association, the
Visual Resources Association, and the Association of Art Historians. See
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/offer/gvir-so.asp for details.
Christine L. Sundt, Editor
Helen Ronan, Reviews Editor
Murtha Baca, News Editor
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Christine L. Sundt, Editor
Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation
P.O. Box 5316
Eugene, OR 97405-0316 USA
phone: 541.485.1420
VR Website: http://www.mindspring.com/~sundt-vr/
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