Topic · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Most cited papers in Visual Culture and Art Theory
What are the most cited papers in Visual Culture and Art Theory?
The most cited paper in Visual Culture and Art Theory is "On Face-Work" (Erving Goffman, 1955), with 2,865 citations. Next come "Designerly ways of knowing" (1,498) and "Art and Agency An Anthropological Theory" (1,119).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 161 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On Face-Work Erving Goffman · Psychiatry | Aug 1955 | 2,865 |
| 2 | Designerly ways of knowing Nigel Cross · Design Studies | Oct 1982 | 1,498 |
| 3 | Art and Agency An Anthropological Theory Stephanie Takaragawa · Visual Anthropology Review | Sep 1998 | 1,119 |
| 4 | The Image of Objectivity Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison · Representations | 1992 | 1,075 |
| 5 | Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics Claire Bishop · October | Oct 2004 | 990 |
| 6 | Intermediality, Intertextuality, and Remediation: A Literary Perspective on Intermediality Irina O. Rajewsky · Intermédialités Histoire et théorie des arts des lettres et des techniques | 10 Aug 2011 | 939 |
| 7 | The Theory of the Photographic Process T. Howard James, Mary Frances McCarthy · Physics Today | Oct 1966 | 881 |
| 8 | Confusion by design Alan Lindsay Greer · Nature | Dec 1993 | 816 |
| 9 | Showing seeing: a critique of visual culture William John Thomas Mitchell · Journal of Visual Culture | Aug 2002 | 695 |
| 10 | Following you: Disciplines of listening in social media Kate Crawford · Continuum | 24 Jul 2009 | 549 |
| 11 | Corporate brands with a heritage Mats Urde, Stephen A. Greyser, John M.T. Balmer · Journal of Brand Management | 27 Jul 2007 | 505 |
| 12 | Foundations for an anthropology of the senses Constance Classen · International Social Science Journal | Sep 1997 | 494 |
| 13 | 1 Constitutional Amendments: “Materializing” Organizational Communication Karen Lee Ashcraft, Timothy R. Kuhn, François Cooren · Academy of Management Annals | 2009 | 459 |
| 14 | IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS: A SPECIAL TYPE OF VISUAL ILLUSION Lionel Sharples Penrose, Roger Penrose · British Journal of Psychology | Feb 1958 | 455 |
| 15 | Narrate and Describe: The Problem of Ekphrasis Don P. Fowler · The Journal of Roman Studies | Nov 1991 | 444 |
| 16 | Organizational Dress as a Symbol of Multilayered Social Identities Michael G. Pratt, Anat Rafaeli · Academy of Management Journal | Aug 1997 | 439 |
| 17 | The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations Lars Elleström · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 2010 | 434 |
| 18 | Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 Timothy Binkley, Lucy R. Lippard, Gregory Battcock et al. · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1974 | 432 |
| 19 | What's In An Image Ernest Dichter · Journal of Consumer Marketing | 1985 | 428 |
| 20 | New Ways of Seeing through Qualitative Research Pratima Bansal, Wendy K. Smith, Eero Vaara · Academy of Management Journal | Aug 2018 | 420 |
| 21 | There Are No Visual Media William J. Mitchell · Journal of Visual Culture | 26 Jul 2005 | 407 |
| 22 | Colour as a Secondary Quality1 Paul Artin Boghossian, J. David Velleman · Mind | 1989 | 397 |
| 23 | Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care Karen E. Till · Political Geography | 2 Dec 2011 | 395 |
| 24 | The fact of blackness : Frantz Fanon and visual representation Alan Read | 1996 | 381 |
| 25 | On the Relation between ‘Visual Research Methods’ and Contemporary Visual Culture Gillian Rose · The Sociological Review | 31 Oct 2013 | 378 |
| 26 | Communication Theory at the Center: Ventriloquism and the Communicative Constitution of Reality François Cooren · Journal of Communication | Feb 2012 | 367 |
| 27 | Audism: Exploring the Metaphysics of Oppression H-D. L. Bauman · The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education | 3 Mar 2004 | 362 |
| 28 | Reflections on Portraiture: A Dialogue Between Art and Science Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot · Qualitative Inquiry | 20 Dec 2004 | 357 |
| 29 | Performing identities in illness narrative: masculinity and multiple sclerosis Catherine Kohler Riessman · Qualitative Research | Apr 2003 | 343 |
| 30 | Customer value and autoethnography: subjective personal introspection and the meanings of a photograph collection Morris B. Holbrook · Journal of Business Research | 31 Jul 2003 | 343 |
| 31 | Remembering and Forgetting: Narrative as Cultural Memory Jens Brockmeier · Culture & Psychology | Mar 2002 | 332 |
| 32 | Ekphrasisancient and modern: The invention of a genre Ruth Webb · Word & Image | 1999 | 323 |
| 33 | Anatomy of Criticism, Four Essays Walter Sutton · Symposium A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures | Mar 1958 | 316 |
| 34 | Visual sociology: Expanding sociological vision Douglas Harper · The American Sociologist | Mar 1988 | 315 |
| 35 | Entitling art: Influence of title information on understanding and appreciation of paintings Helmut Leder, Claus‐Christian Carbon, Ai-Leen Ripsas · Acta Psychologica | 12 Nov 2005 | 312 |
| 36 | Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages Mary Mothersill, Umberto Eco · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1987 | 311 |
| 37 | Images of Recovery: A Photo-Elicitation Study on the Hospital Ward Alan Radley, Diane Taylor · Qualitative Health Research | 2003 | 310 |
| 38 | Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of context Howard S. Becker · Visual Sociology | 1995 | 306 |
| 39 | Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture Mieke Bal · Journal of Visual Culture | Apr 2003 | 305 |
| 40 | Archie Bunker's Bigotry: A Study in Selective Perception and Exposure Neil J. Vidmar, Milton Rokeach · Journal of Communication | Mar 1974 | 304 |
| 41 | Bridging the Arts and Sciences: A Framework for the Psychology of Aesthetics Thomas Jacobsen · Leonardo | Apr 2006 | 296 |
| 42 | Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art Keith Moxey, Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel · The Art Bulletin | Sep 2003 | 291 |
| 43 | The Fatal Flaw: A Narrative of the Fragile Body-Self Andrew C. Sparkes · Qualitative Inquiry | Dec 1996 | 288 |
| 44 | Visual Management Studies: Empirical and Theoretical Approaches* Emma Bell, Jane Davison · International Journal of Management Reviews | 14 Jun 2012 | 288 |
| 45 | Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology Catherine E. Russell · American Ethnologist | Aug 2001 | 287 |
| 46 | Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice Ruth Webb, Michael Squire · Aestimatio Sources and Studies in the History of Science | 21 Dec 2015 | 287 |
| 47 | On the Origins of "Aesthetic Disinterestedness" Jerome Stolnitz · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1961 | 284 |
| 48 | Passages in Modern Sculpture David Carrier, Rosalind E. Krauss · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1978 | 283 |
| 49 | A medical-toxicological view of tattooing Peter Laux et al. · The Lancet | 23 Jul 2015 | 277 |
| 50 | Objects of Affect: Photography Beyond the Image Elizabeth Edwards · Annual Review of Anthropology | 24 Sep 2012 | 275 |
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