Iona Gilburt
Biographic Data
| ID | 6299366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iona Gilburt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iona |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilburt |
| SIGNATURE | GILBURT I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6141-451X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Other Lives of the Image
In the wake of intensifying debates on decolonisation and restitution in Africa and its francophone diaspora, a Facebook posting of 6 February 2020 gave an other life to a photographic portrait of the French-Italian explorer Savorgnan de Brazza taken in 1882.1 The uploaded digital scan of a photograph from nearly 140 years ago flashed up in a moment of contemporary hypervisibility, offering a visual pretext to denounce de Brazza and the effect of…
The Phototextual Emergence of Hysteria
This article seeks to examine the emergence of the image of hysteria that originated at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris in the late nineteenth century and has since been transferred across new generations of phototexts through ekphrasis. It is first shown how this stereotypically feminine and sexualised image was initiated by the medical tome Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière - an effect that belies the physicians' original intentio…
Bringing the Vietnam War Home
This article examines photographic ekphrasis in the first novella of J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974)—the narrative of Eugene Dawn—exploring how the properties and technical processes of photography and film are inscribed in the novel’s prose as a response to the media dialogues and violent imagery about the war in Vietnam that Coetzee experienced while living in America. The first section of analysis considers how a focus on the negative reporta…
Other Lives of the Image
In the wake of intensifying debates on decolonisation and restitution in Africa and its francophone diaspora, a Facebook posting of 6 February 2020 gave an other life to a photographic portrait of the French-Italian explorer Savorgnan de Brazza taken in 1882.1 The uploaded digital scan of a photograph from nearly 140 years ago flashed up in a moment of contemporary hypervisibility, offering a visual pretext to denounce de Brazza and the effect of…
The Phototextual Emergence of Hysteria
This article seeks to examine the emergence of the image of hysteria that originated at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris in the late nineteenth century and has since been transferred across new generations of phototexts through ekphrasis. It is first shown how this stereotypically feminine and sexualised image was initiated by the medical tome Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière - an effect that belies the physicians' original intentio…
Bringing the Vietnam War Home
This article examines photographic ekphrasis in the first novella of J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974)—the narrative of Eugene Dawn—exploring how the properties and technical processes of photography and film are inscribed in the novel’s prose as a response to the media dialogues and violent imagery about the war in Vietnam that Coetzee experienced while living in America. The first section of analysis considers how a focus on the negative reporta…
Bringing the Vietnam War Home
This article examines photographic ekphrasis in the first novella of J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974)—the narrative of Eugene Dawn—exploring how the properties and technical processes of photography and film are inscribed in the novel’s prose as a response to the media dialogues and violent imagery about the war in Vietnam that Coetzee experienced while living in America. The first section of analysis considers how a focus on the negative reporta…
Other Lives of the Image
In the wake of intensifying debates on decolonisation and restitution in Africa and its francophone diaspora, a Facebook posting of 6 February 2020 gave an other life to a photographic portrait of the French-Italian explorer Savorgnan de Brazza taken in 1882.1 The uploaded digital scan of a photograph from nearly 140 years ago flashed up in a moment of contemporary hypervisibility, offering a visual pretext to denounce de Brazza and the effect of…
The Phototextual Emergence of Hysteria
This article seeks to examine the emergence of the image of hysteria that originated at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris in the late nineteenth century and has since been transferred across new generations of phototexts through ekphrasis. It is first shown how this stereotypically feminine and sexualised image was initiated by the medical tome Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière - an effect that belies the physicians' original intentio…
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (2 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Diverse academic research themes (1 work)