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Editorial Re(Mark)! The Question Of Representation, Jan Jagodzinski
Editorial Re(Mark)! The Question Of Representation, Jan Jagodzinski
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
As the perceptive, or should I say - receptive reader may not(e), no thumbprint appears in the margins of this years editorial-rather, an index finger 'figures' prominently. The index sign is particularly apropos for this issue for index signs give us dues to what is being represented. Deceivingly, they establish their meanings through a physical relationship to their referents. As Krauss puts it: "They are the marks or traces of a particular cause, and that cause is the thing to which they refer, the object they signify. Into the category of the index, we would place physical traces (like footprints), …