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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452252703321

Titolo

Interpreting visual culture : explorations in the hermeneutics of the visual / / edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-72923-5

1-280-13981-1

0-203-98459-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HeywoodIan <1948->

SandywellBarry

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Vision

Hermeneutics

Art - Philosophy

Art and society

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; 1 The hermeneutics of seeing; 2 Specular grammar; 3 Bakhtin and the metaphorics of perception; 4 Durkheim's double vision; 5 Readers of the lost art; 6 Seeing becoming drawing; 7 The 'real realm'; 8 The denigration of vision and the renewal of painting; 9 My philosophical project and the empty jug; 10 'Ever more specific'; 11 Aporia of the sensible; Appendix: the original project; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, it presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture.Among topics covered



are:* the visual rhetoric of modernity* the drawings of Bonnard* recent feminist art* practices and perception in arts and ethics.