摘要：We see the world not as it is, but rather like a palimpsest through the complexlenses of our cultural experiences, sometimes partially erased and oftenveiled in ways that obscure and codify our understanding of the objects,people, and images we encounter. As Lau (1993) notes, these experiencesare loaded with relations of power. In each of the articles in this year’s volumn,authors consider ways of looking and understanding themselves andothers within the contexts of visual culture and gender. Clearly, their workconveys that “[t]he way we see things is affected by what we know or whatwe believe,” as John Berger’s 1970s BBC series and influential book Waysof Seeing emphasized. These articles expose veils and unveil multiple andtimely issues. They trouble the taken-for-granted and give us opportunitiesto reconsider our own participation in hegemony. Vincent Lanier (1982),an arts educator whose legacy brought attention to contextualized renderingsof cultural meanings of everyday aesthetic experience, identified nineveils that filter how we perceive visual culture
