Prof Dr R. van de Vall
My research areas are: philosophical aesthetics, visual culture, media theory, art history.
My main topics are:
- The construction of spectatorship in contemporary visual art and culture: I am particularly interested in the phenomenology of spectatorship in interactive media art, installations and painting (see under Publications: At the Edges of Vision)
- Theory and ethics of the conservation of contemporary art: As project leader of the collaborative NWO funded research programme New strategies in the conservation of contemporary art (University of Amsterdam; Rijksdienst Cultureel Erfgoed) I develop a framework for conservation theory and ethics (see under Links)
- Processes of globalization in contemporary art and media: in this context I have written about modern and contemporary art in India.
van de Vall, R. (2015). The Devil and the Details: The Ontology of Contemporary Art in Conservation Theory and Practice. British Journal of Aesthetics, 55(3), 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayv036
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van de Vall, R. (2015). Documenting Dilemmas. On the Relevance of Ethically Ambiguous Cases. Revista de História da Arte, 04, 07-17. http://revistaharte.fcsh.unl.pt/rhaw4/RHAw4.pdf
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van de Vall, R. (2013). Looking for Nasreen. In search of a cross-cultural and performative aesthetics. In J. D. Mul, & R. V. D. Vall (Eds.), Gimme Shelter. Global Discourses in Aesthetics (pp. 153-165). Amsterdam University Press.
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van de Vall, R., Hoelling, H., Scholte, T., & Stigter, S. (2011). Reflections on a Biographical Approach to Contemporary Art Conservation. Proceedings of ICOM-CC 16th Triennial Conference. WG Theory and History in Conservation. In Reflections on a Biographical Approach to Contemporary Art Conservation
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van de Vall, R. (2010). Het opslaan van een oog : tijdelijkheid en ongelijktijdigheid in hedendaagse kunst. Maastricht University. https://doi.org/10.26481/spe.20100507rv
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van de Vall, R., & Zwijnenberg, R. (Eds.) (2009). The Body Within: Art, Medicine and Visualisation. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004176218.i-228
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van de Vall, R. (2008). At the Edges of Vision. A Phenomenological Aesthetics of Contemporary Spectatorship. Ashgate.
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van de Vall, R. (2002). What Consciousness Forgets: Lyotard's Concept of the Sublime. In P. Smith, & C. Wilde (Eds.), A Companion to Art Theory (pp. 360-369). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470998434.CH30
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Prof Dr R. van de Vall
Professor Arts & Media
Letteren en Kunst
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences