CRISIS, DESAUTORIZACIÓN Y AUDIOVISUALIZACIÓN DE LA HISTORIA DEL ARTE EN WAYS OF SEEING

This article addresses the audiovisual mediations of Art History in the television series and book Ways of Seeing (WoS, 1972).We argue that the relevance of this project lies not so much in the reflections it raised as in its attitude towards the possibilities of audiovisual writings, that is, in its artifactual capacity to articulate other kinds of remediations of the images and narratives of art.We evidence this by: 1) situating WoS in the so-called crisis of Art History; 2) discussing conceptual and technical aspects of the struggle of WoS with the canon of Art History starting with its televised intervention; 3) arguing that WoS deauthorized academic Art History with its multimedia and collaborative experiments in writing that favored forms of disappropriation of high culture; and finally 4) elucidating the singularity and limitations of the remediations produced by WoS.