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April 28, 2008
Margaret Dikovitskaya Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural Turn Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. 344 pp.; 57 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (9780262541886)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.42

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In its Summer 1996 issue (no. 77), the journal October published the results of a four-part “Questionnaire on Visual Culture” that the editors had sent to a range of scholars, artists, and critics the previous winter. Outwardly hostile to the then-emerging field of visual culture, the survey’s editors made no secret of their disdain for the type of work being done in the name of visual studies, which they suggested “is helping in its own...