Editing the image : strategies in the production and reception of the visual : including papers given at the thirty-ninth annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 7-8 November 2003

__Editing the Image__ looks at the editing of visual media as both a series of technical exercises and as an allegory.

The editing process is a vital part of virtually every form of media. Primarily associated with texts and written language, editing is equally essential, if less examined, in regard to visual media. Editing the Image looks at the editing of visual media as both a series of technical exercises and as an allegory. It touches on concerns that are crucial to the history of art and visual culture, as well as those media and institutions that produce and disseminate the visual arts in our society.

Featuring contributors from a wide range of disciplines, Editing the Image considers editing in the context of academic journals, art-historical texts, illustrated books, museum displays, and exhibitions. It is an inclusive analysis of visual forms commonly associated with the process of editing - photography, film, and video - as well as some that are not intrinsically linked to editing - painting, sculpture, and architecture. In addition to wide-ranging academic considerations, this collection includes discussions of moving picture media and studio art by practitioners, giving the study a practical focus. For anyone who has considered the implications of the editorial process, this work will be of significant interest.

Contents 7 Notes on Contributors 9 Acknowledgments 13 Illustrations 15 Introduction 19 Editing Identity 33 1. Mr Blank Gets Concretized 33 2. Striking Through the Artist’s Body: Ekphrasis in Bellori’s Life of Caravaggio 45 Editing the Body of History 63 3. An Edited Past: Aegean Prehistory and Its Texts 63 4. The Trouble with Painting, the Image (less) Text 97 Spectacular Editing 125 5. Concealing Spectacles: Childbirth and Visuality in Early Modern France 125 6. Edit In ... Edit Out: A Performance/Intervention 145 Aura and Edit 157 7. Editing Armageddon 157 8. Editing the Image: Two On-site/Online Exhibitions 183 Institutions of Art and Editorial Practices 197 9. The Art Museum as Installation: An Interpretation of the Place of Matisse’s The Joy of Life in the Barnes Foundation 197 10. Editing In vs. Editing Out: World Art Studies and the Pathologies of Academe 213 Conclusions 229 11. ‘Editorial’ Afterthoughts 229 Envoi What Remains: The Nachleben of the Invisible 237 Index 263 Previous Conference Publications 267