Issues no. 4 in contemporary culture and aesthetics
Theory paper September 1996
Socio-cultural reflections on the 'pure gaze': Bourdieu and beyond.
Heinz Paetzold page 5
Practical picture description. On pictures within
pictures, with particular reference to van Eyck and Mantegna.
Wolfgang Kemp page 17
Metaphor and Mnemosyne. The Concrete
History of Vision.
Roger Behrens page 37
The anthropological gaze: photography and anthropology
in the nineteenth century.
Pirko Siitari
page 55
Concerning Lévi-Strauss' ideas on a structuralist theory of art.
Marie-Thérèse van
de Kamp page 65
Mute thought: An account of my encounter with the
French philosopher Maurice Merleau Ponty.
Riek Sijbring
page 73
Inside the picture.
Nadežda Čačinovič page 81
Vision and television
Karlheinz Lüdeking
page 85