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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791317703321

Titolo

The handbook of visual culture / / edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell ; with Michael Gardiner, Gunalan Nadarajan and Catherine Soussloff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-350-25077-5

1-350-02650-6

1-84788-575-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1807 p.)

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Culture

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 at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Editorial Introduction6 Visual Culture and Contemporary Art: Reframing the Picture, Recasting the Object?; 7 Beyond Museology: Reframing the Sensorium; 8 Cubism and the Iconic Turn: A Climate of Practice, the Object and Representation; 9 Reframing Nature: The Visual Experience of Early Mountaineering; 10 The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture; Part Three: Aesthetics, Politics and Visual Culture; Editorial Introduction; 11 Sociology of the Spectacle: Politics, Terror, Desire; 12 Art, Feminism and Visual Culture

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the subject. The Handbook embraces the extraordinary range of disciplines which now engage in the study of the visual - film and photography, television, fashion, visual arts, digital media, geography, philosophy, architecture, ma