Appreciation Post

Towards an Art History of Instagram
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-39877-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post reveals how Instagram shifts long-established ways of interacting with images. Tara Ward argues Instagram is a structure of the visual, which includes not just the process of looking, but what can be seen and by whom. She examines features of Instagram use, including the effect of scrolling through images on a phone, the skill involved in taking an “Instagram-worthy” picture, and the desires created by following influencers, to explain how the constraints imposed by Instagram limit the selves that can be displayed on it. The proliferation of technical knowledge, especially among younger women, revitalizes on Instagram the myth of the masculine genius and a corresponding reinvigoration of a masculine audience for art. Ward prompts scholars of art history, gender studies, and media studies to attend to Instagram as a site of visual expression and social consequence. Through its insightful comparative analysis and acute close reading, Appreciation Post argues for art history’s value in understanding the contemporary world and the visual nature of identity today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Tara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: Insta-duction 

PART ONE: SCROLLING FRAME
1. Compare and Contrast: Instagram and Art History 
2. I Glanced at It 

PART TWO: SELFIE-PORTRAIT
3. Basic 
4. Other, But Make It Attractive 

PART THREE: FOR THE DISCERNING INSTAGRAMMER
5. Sneaker Connoisseurs 
6. 5G Genius 

Conclusion: Spending Time on Instagram 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tara Ward is an art historian specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture. She is editor of Gender and Popular Culture: A Visual Study, and her work has been published by the Guggenheim Museum, Oxford Art Journal, and Excursions.