The first article, by Connor and Rhode, deals with Civil War medical images
held in the National Museum of Health and Medicine (formerly the Army
Medical Museum) in Washington, DC and the changing use of these pictures
over the past 140 years.  31 images are included in the article.

Michael Rhode, Archivist
Otis Historical Archives
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Washington, DC 20306-6000
202-782-2212; FAX 202-782-3573
http://natmedmuse.afip.org/
http://natmedmuse.afip.org/collections/archives/archives.html


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> PLEASE FORWARD - INVISIBLE CULTURE - ISSUE 5 (WINTER 2003)
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> The editors of Invisible Culture are pleased to announce the release of
>
> ISSUE 5: Visual Culture and National Identity
>
> Edited by Lucy Curzon
>
> http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html
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>
>
> Increasingly, within the domains of film studies, art history, and
> cultural and communication studies, the role of national identity as a
> component of visual analysis has become paramount. The work of Timothy
> Barringer, Robert Burgoyne, David Peters Corbett, Darrell William Davis,
> Nicholas Mirzoeff, Sarah Street, and Janet Wolff, amongst others, has
> demonstrated the importance of including, for example, ideas of
> "Englishness" or "Americanness" in the discussion of painting,
> photography, and cinema. The purpose of this issue of Invisible Culture,
> therefore, is to investigate how visual culture can be analyzed as an
> expression of national identity, including how questions of national
> identity are negotiated through different forms of visual culture. Visual
> culture, in this context, is understood not as a mirror that reflects
> national identity, but rather a complex venue for its interpretation - a
> site through which populations come into consciousness as members of a
> particular community.
>
> The articles included in this issue are:
>
> Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medical Images, Memory, and Identity in
> America
> by J.T.H. Connor and Michael G. Rhode
> Saving the Other/Rescuing the Self:
> Promethean Aspirations in Mikhail Kalatozov's Sol Svanetii
> by Daniel Humphrey
> A Case Study in the Construction of Place:
> Boundary Management as Theme and Strategy in
> Canadian Art and Life
> by Gaile McGregor
> Incarnate Politics: The Rhetorics of German Reunification
> in the Architecture of Berlin
> by Daniela Sandler
> Inventing Wifredo Lam: The Parisian
> Avant-Garde's Primitivist Fixation
> by Michele Greet
>
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> Past issues of Invisible Culture include:  "To Incorporate Practice"
> (Issue 4) "Time and the Work" (Issue 3) "Interrogating Subcultures" (Issue
> 2), and "The Worlding of Cultural Studies" (Issue 1).
>
> Invisible Culture has been in operation since 1998, in association with
> the Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester.
> The present editors, Margot Bouman, Lucy Curzon, T'ai Smith, and Catherine
> Zuromskis, have revised the journal's original mission statement, with the
> goal of reaching a broader range of disciplines.
>
> The journal is dedicated to explorations of the material and political
> dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and
> communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge,
> and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they
> contribute.
>
> As the title suggests, Invisible Culture problematizes the unquestioned
> alliance between culture and visibility, specifically visual culture and
> vision. Cultural practices and materials emerge not solely in the visible
> world, but also in the social, temporal, and theoretical relations that
> define the invisible. Our understanding of Cultural Studies, finally,
> maintains that culture is fugitive and is constantly renegotiated.
>
> You are invited to submit articles (no more than 6000 words), brief
> reviews of recent books (500-700 words), or other projects that consider
> any aspect of visual culture.
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