Visual Studies, Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012)

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Olympics Special Issue

Editorial Introduction

Editorial
Seeing the Olympics: images, spaces, legacies
Peter Coles, Caroline Knowles & Darren Newbury
Pages: 117-118
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Articles

The Cut
Chris Dorley-Brown
Pages: 120-125
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Olympian visions
Alessandra Chilá
Pages: 126-131
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Photography against the Olympic spectacle
Isaac Marrero-Guillamón
Pages: 132-139
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Go for gold!
Gesche Würfel
Pages: 141-147
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Clays Lane Live archive
Adelita Husni-Bey
Pages: 148-150
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Seeing Olympic effects through the eyes of marginally housed youth: changing places and the gentrification of East London
Jacqueline Kennelly & Paul Watt
Pages: 151-160
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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The Cloud
Paolo Patelli & Luca Simeone
Pages: 161-163
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Sweat, slow motion and solidarity: Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad in Ireland
Mervyn Horgan
Pages: 164-172
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Olympic ghosts in a former warzone: what the legacy of 1984 means for Sarajevo today
Juliet Walker
Pages: 174-177
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Perimeter: Sydney Olympic Park 2011
Paul Seawright
Pages: 179-185
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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‘Follow the flag forever’: Beijing 2008
Peter Robinson
Pages: 186-187
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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The 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony: visual insights into China's soft power
Chwen Chwen Chen, Cinzia Colapinto & Qing Luo
Pages: 188-195
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Dressing up to join the games: Vancouver 2010
Noel Dyck & Ryan Gauvin
Pages: 196-203
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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The revanchist logic of mega-events: community displacement in Rio de Janeiro's West End
Gabriel Silvestre & Nelma Gusmão de Oliveira
Pages: 204-210
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Reviews

Review Article
Girl Model
Ioana Literat
Pages: 211-212
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Chair
Travis Nygard
Pages: 212-213
Published online: 06 Feb 2012
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Extra/ordinary: Craft and contemporary art
Angela Brayham
Page: 213
Published online: 07 Feb 2012
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Shared intelligence: American painting and the photograph
Albert S. Fu
Pages: 213-214
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Thomas Kinkade: The artist in the mall
Judith R. Halasz
Pages: 214-215
Published online: 06 Feb 2012
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Smoke damage: Voices from the front lines of America's tobacco wars
Daniela Jauk
Pages: 215-216
Published online: 06 Feb 2012
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Review Article
Since '45: America and the making of contemporary art
Andrea Siegel
Page: 216
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Girl ascending
Jennifer Sterling
Pages: 216-217
Published online: 06 Feb 2012
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Review Article
Brain injury survivors: Narratives of rehabilitation and healing
Laura S. Lorenz
Pages: 217-218
Published online: 14 Jun 2012
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Parallel texts: Interviews and interventions about art
Elena Stylianou
Pages: 218-219
Published online: 06 Feb 2012
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