Addressed to students of the image --both art historians and students of visual studies-- this book investigates the history and nature of time in a variety of different environments and media as well as the temporal potential of objects. Essays will analyze such topics as the disparities of power that privilege certain forms of temporality above others, the nature of temporal duration in different cultures, the time of materials, the creation of pictorial narrative, and the recognition of anachrony as a form of historical interpretation.
Introduction: Telling art's time / Dan Karlholm and Keith Moxey -- Part I. Historical time. 1. Is history to be closed, saved, or restarted? considering efficient art history / Dan Karlholm -- 2. What time is it in the history of art? / Keith Moxey -- Part II. Post-colonial time. 3. Time processes in the history of the Asian modern / John Clark -- 4. Colonial modern: a clash of colonial and indigenous chronologies: the case of India / Partha Mitter -- 5. Artists, amateurs, and the pleated time of Ottoman modernity / Mary Roberts -- 6. The time of translation: Victor Burgin and Sedad Eldem in virtual conversation / Esra Akcan -- Part III. Artist's time. 7. Arresting what would otherwise slip away: the waiting images of Jacob Vrel / Hanneke Grootenboer -- 8. Twisted time: Fernando Bryce's art of history / Miguel Angel Hernández Navarro -- Part IV. Narrative time. 9. Heterochronies: the gospel according to Caravaggio / Giovanni Careri -- Part V. Ontological time. 10. The phenomenal sublime: time, matter, image in Mesopotamian antiquity / Zainab Bahrani -- 11. Resisting time: on how temporality shaped medieval choice of materials / Avinoam Shalem -- 12. Sarah Sze's The Last Garden and the temporality of wonder / Christine Ross -- Part VI. Photographic time. 13. Showtime and exposure time: the contradictions of social photography and the critical role of sensitive plates for rethinking the temporality of artworks / Emmanuel Alloa -- 14. "Objects moving are not impressed": reading into the blur / Amelia Groom.