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Record Nr.

UNINA9910677763003321

Titolo

A concise companion to visual culture / / edited by A. Joan Saab, Aubrey Anable, Catherine Zuromskis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey ; ; West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-119-41547-0

1-119-41544-6

1-119-41548-9

9781119415473

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 493 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Wiley Blackwell companions to cultural studies ; ; 20

Disciplina

701.03

Soggetti

Art and society

Culture

Visual perception

Percepció visual

Comunicació visual

Cultura popular

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"We approach visual culture pedagogy through an account of our academic training and work histories as they informed our book Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture in its three very different editions (2001, 2008, 2017). Our experience was unusually broad, spanning art and media practice, cultural studies, critical theory, cultural history, and media activism. With this mixed approach, we helped to introduce a range of images and image-making cultures and technologies, beyond art and film, to the then-nascent visual culture field. In this account, we aim to show how visual culture was, in the 1990s, not just a new direction in art history or a merger between art



history and film studies. Rather, the field's emergence was also motivated by political movements and their multimodal forms of practice, as well as by a commitment to recognizing and studying images and imaging technologies at work in a host of institutions and practices beyond fine art, popular media, and art cinema"--