Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing

The complex gestures of artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies. In In this volume, contributors ask: How may one speak not only of the gestures of the body but also of the gestures of the image? What constitutes gesturality in the image and, more broadly, what are the gestures of the aesthetic itself? By thinking about images within this conceptual framework, this volume seeks to renew our understanding of the image.