Visual Culture: An Introduction - Hardcover

Walker, John Albert; Chaplin, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719050197 ISBN 13: 9780719050190

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This book is about the expanding realm of visual culture: in architecture, art, design, advertising, photography, film, television, video, theatre performance, computer imagery and virtual reality. It is also about Visual Culture Studies, a relatively new academic discipline, or rather range of disciplines, that scholars employ to analyse visual artefacts. Unlike many other texts on the same subject, it foregrounds the ‘visual’ and is systematic and accessible. Visual culture provides an overview of the subject that pays heed to the achievements of both traditional and new theory whilst directing the reader to a large body of literature via references and an extensive bibliography.

Walker and Chaplin discuss the concepts of ‘the visual’ and of ‘culture’ as well as the field and origins of Visual Culture Studies; coping with theory; models of production and consumption; institutions; pleasure; the canon and concepts of value; visual literacy and poetics; modes of analysis; culture and commerce; and new technologies.

This book is designed for those studying the history and theory of fine arts, design and the mass media.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

John A. Walker is Reader in Art and Design History at Middlesex University

Sarah Chaplin is Lecturer in Architectural and Design Theory at Middlesex University

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0719050197
• ISBN 13: 9780719050190
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 231
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