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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786339403321

Autore

Aall Ingrid

Titolo

The multicultural challenge [[electronic resource] ] : a visual-cultural guide to coping in the global era / / Ingrid Aall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Woodland Hills, Calif.], : South Asian Studies Association, c2011

ISBN

0-9834472-3-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Soggetti

Art and globalization

Art and society

Cultural pluralism

Multiculturalism

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 (160-165) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""PART I: VISUAL LITERACY""; ""1 Processing Visual Perceptions""; ""Becoming an Active Viewer""; ""Seeing Subjectively""; ""Seeing Objectively""; ""Integrating Subjective and Objective Perception""; ""Understanding Visual Memory""; ""2 Decoding Art""; ""Encountering a Work of Art""; ""Identifying Visual Aspects""; ""Interpreting Contextual Aspects""; ""Negotiating Authoritative Interpretations""; ""Responding to Culture-Specific Aesthetics""; ""3 Decoding People""; ""Regarding First Impressions""; ""Reading Face and Body Language""

""Interpreting Dress and Style""""Recognizing Gender Specificities""; ""Creating Self-Images and Cultural Identities""; ""PART II: CULTURAL LITERACY""; ""4 Processing and Decoding Cultures""; ""Finding Cultural Common Denominators""; ""Identifying Cultural Specificities""; ""Mapping Cultural Response Phases""; ""Conceptualizing Coexisting Cultures""; ""Assessing Dynamics of Multiculturalism""; ""5 Understanding Our Present and Creating Our Future""; ""Tracking Cultural Shifts""; ""Living in the Digital Age""; ""Educating Toward Integration and Cultural Globalization""

""Tracking Visual Culture in a Postmodern World""""Coping as Global Citizens""; ""EPILOGUE""; ""APPENDIX A: INFORMAL EXPERIMENTS""; ""APPENDIX B: GUIDE TO THE FORMAL ELEMENTS""; ""APPENDIX C:



GUIDE TO ANALYZING A WORK OF ART""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY by Chapter""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""