Abstract
ABSTRACTThis essay addresses the ‘lure of immediacy’ in visual studies that rejects the sign, semiotics and interpretation. Placing this trend within a larger debate over representation, it first politicises anti-representation by showing the limitations of such a position within contemporary politics. Next, it reviews how anti-representation has been treated in discussions of works of art. Noting the unfruitfulness of an irreconcilable double truth, it proposes the duality of structure from social theory as a way to overcome limitations in visual theory. Then it shows how an image has a perfectly understandable duality. Finally, addressing the issue of presence that is held to be important to anti-representationalists, the paper concludes with a semiotic account of its mode of being.
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