Visual Resources, Vol. 26, No. 3 (September 2010)
Special Issue - A Tribute to Helene E. Roberts (1931-2008)
''Second Hand Images'': On Art's Surrogate Means and Media
Part I: The Art Press and Photography, edited by Julie F. Codell
The September 2010 issue of Visual Resources is the first of two dedicated to Helene E. Roberts' scholarly contributions. The issues, edited by Julie Codell, are divided among topics to which Roberts contributed during her career and in her writings: the art press and photography in the first issue and collecting and iconography in the second. In 1993 in Visual Resources Roberts noted that most of us learn about art from “surrogate images” and their verbal descriptions called ekphrasis. Roberts observed that our first view of a reproduction of a work of art is often the most lasting, and she echoed Jean Baudrillard's notion of the simulacrum, the sign that replaces the real thing of which it is the sign.
This first issue (26, no. 3) dedicated to Roberts focuses on ideas about reproductions, simulacra, Marshall McLuhan's notions, and recent theories of mediology. Reproductions are not always cases of lost auras, as Walter Benjamin argued, but acquire new auras, as reflected in Roberts' studies of surrogate or “second hand” images that acquire a new reality, apart from any “original” art they recall and which we may or may not ever see. Thus, images of artworks are like other material objects with which we create a complex enclosing environment of things we cherish and wish to remember.
Editorial : Honoring Helene E. Roberts
Pages 211 – 212
News from the Field: Images for Academic Use, an Update
Murtha Baca
Page 213
“Second Hand Images”: On Art’s Surrogate Means and Media—Introduction
Julie F. Codell
Pages 214 – 225
Critical Mediators: Locating the Art Press
Meaghan Clarke
Pages 226 – 241
The Death of the Victorian Art Periodical
Anne Helmreich
Pages 242 – 253
Building Nineteenth-century Photographic Resources: The South Kensington Museum and William Blackmore
Anthony Hamber
Pages 254 – 273
Freud’s Egyptian Photographs: Scenes from a Library
Mary Bergstein
Pages 274 – 288
The Photograph and Bernard Berenson: The Story of a Collection
Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi
Pages 289 – 303
William Saunders, Photographer of Shanghai Customs
Régine Thiriez
Pages 304 – 319
GALLERY
William C. Brumfield
Pages 320 – 321
(Re)presenting Russian Architecture
William C. Brumfield
Pages 322 – 330
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