The Handbook of Visual Culture.

The Handbook of Visual Culture.

Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of analysis. Bringing together leading international scholars to assess all aspects of visual culture, the H...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heywood, Ian
Other Authors: Sandywell, Barry
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2012.
Subjects:
Culture.
Visual communication.
Culture
Visual communication
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Dedication; Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Critical Approaches to the Study of Visual Culture: An Introduction to the Handbook; Part One: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; Editorial Introduction; 1 Major Theoretical Frameworks in Visual Culture; 2 Towards a New Visual Studies and Aesthetics: Theorizing the Turns; 3 Scopic Regimes of Modernity Revisited; 4 Phenomenology and Its Shadow: Visuality in the Late Work of Merleau-Ponty; 5 Hermeneutical Aesthetics and an Ontogeny of the Visual; Part Two: Art and Visuality
  • 13 Visual Consciousness: The Impact of New Media on Literate Culture14 The 'Dictatorship of the Eye': Henri Lefebvre on Vision, Space and Modernity; 15 Cubist Collage and Visual Culture: Representation and Politics; Part Four: Practices and Institutions of Visual Culture; Editorial Introduction; 16 Looking Sharp: Fashion Studies; 17 Seeing Things: Apprehending Material Culture; 18 Photography and Visual Culture; 19 Television as a Global Visual Medium; 20 Film and Visual Culture; 21 Pragmatic Vision: Connecting Aesthetics, Materiality and Culture in Landscape Architectural Practice
  • 22 Images and Information in Cultures of ConsumptionPart Five: Developments in the Field of Visual Culture; Editorial Introduction; 23 The Question of Method: Practice, Reflexivity and Critique in Visual Culture Studies; 24 Digital Art and Visual Culture; 25 Digitalization, Visualization and the 'Descriptive Turn' in Contemporary Sociology; 26 Action-based Visual and Creative Methods in Social Research; 27 Neuroscience and the Nature of Visual Culture; 28 Re-visualizing Anthropology through the Lens of The Ethnographer's Eye
  • 29 Seven Theses on Visual Culture: Towards a Critical-Reflexive Paradigm for the New Visual Studies30 Mapping the Visual Field: A Bibliographical Guide; Name Index; Subject Index; Imprint Page

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