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Record Nr.

UNISA996202210003316

Autore

Chaplin Elizabeth <1939, >

Titolo

Sociology and visual representation / / Elizabeth Chaplin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-90604-8

0-203-31161-2

1-134-90605-6

1-280-32111-3

0-203-41672-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

306.4/7

Soggetti

Art and society - History - 20th century

Visual communication

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Critical writing about visual art; Critical writings about visual art: class analyses I; Non-critical writings about visual art: connoisseurship, humanism; Critical writings about visual art: class analyses II; From written, class analyses of visual art to the use of visual representation in critique; Visual and verbal critique: feminism and postmodernism; Introduction to Part II; Sociological analyses of visual representation; The use of visual representation in anthropology and sociology

Visual representation and new literary forms for sociology A coming together; Appendix; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index;

Sommario/riassunto

With technological developments transforming our culture into a more visual one, this book sets a new standard for visual sociology. In this, Chaplin examines still images, diagrams and the visual representation of the written text.