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"Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medical Images, Memory, and Identity in America" article available online 

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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:08:46 -0500
From: Michael Rhode [RHODE@AFIP.OSD.MIL]
Subject: _Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medical Images, Memory,         
and Identit y in America_ article available online
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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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http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html


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



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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