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Visual Culture Revisited

Author : Ralf Adelmann,Andreas Fahr,Ines Katenhusen,Nic Leonhardt,Dimitri Liebsch
Publisher : Herbert von Halem Verlag
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783869621739

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Visual Culture Revisited by Ralf Adelmann,Andreas Fahr,Ines Katenhusen,Nic Leonhardt,Dimitri Liebsch Pdf

Is there one visual culture or are there multiple visual cultures? On the one hand, it is obvious that images do not exist and cannot be understood independently. Rather, they are embedded in institutions and cultural contexts. This common ground suggests an understanding of visual culture as a singular phenomenon. On the other hand the plurality of pictorial representations - from Sitcoms to illustrations in childrens' books, from cartoons to satellite photos, from high art to everyday life - suggests the conception of visual culture as a singular phenomenon to be misleading. The visual world is a field of conflict and tension between self and other, mainstream and counterculture. The articles in this book include both theoretical reflections on the dialectics of visual culture(s) as well as case studies. The focus lies on examples from the U.S. American context - from the focusing on Native Americans as the 'Vanishing Race' in the 19th-century Photography to the TV coverage of the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster in February, 2003. This book is therefore highly recommendable to both students and scholars of American Studies als well as those interested in the interdisciplinary debate on visual culture(s).

Weimar Culture Revisited

Author : J. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230117259

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Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for German's everyday lives during this fateful era.

Visual Culture

Author : Chris Jenks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351537520

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In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision and truth. A major preoccupation of modernity and central to an understadning of the postmodern, 'vision' and the 'visual' are emergent themes across sociology, cultural studies and critical theory in the visual arts. Visual Culture will prove an indispensable guide to the field.

Global History, Visual Culture and Itinerancies

Author : Francisco José Díaz Marcilla,Jorge Tomás García,Yvette Sobral dos Santos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527562417

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Global History, Visual Culture and Itinerancies by Francisco José Díaz Marcilla,Jorge Tomás García,Yvette Sobral dos Santos Pdf

National studies have demonstrated their inability to correctly understand global phenomena, and the way in which they affect societies. This chronologically ambitious book investigates methodological and theoretical issues from Roman times to the present, in terms of globalization. In this context, one of the most relevant parameters of change emerges: the itinerancy of culture and knowledge. Therefore, this volume argues that itinerant agents carry with them cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to other spaces. In this way, interconnection begins, producing active changes in global history and visual culture. Contributions to this book focus on comparative studies, the evolution of global phenomena, historical processes in their diachrony, regional studies, changing economies, cultural continuities, and methodological questions on globalization, among others. In addition, the book opens with a contribution from Professor Peter Burke.

Popular and Visual Culture

Author : Ricardo Campos,Rúben Pinho,Clara Sarmento
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443868310

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Popular and Visual Culture by Ricardo Campos,Rúben Pinho,Clara Sarmento Pdf

Popular and Visual Culture: Design, Circulation and Consumption is a transnational project that fosters a dialogue with multiple origins, both in geographical and academic terms. From the onset, this book questions the concepts of visual and popular culture, terms which are currently applied both to describe scientific fields, as operative concepts in theoretical discourse, and to characterize specific cultural contexts. The book’s analysis and categorization of visual and popular culture pursues discourses and practices which mark different historical eras and shape social orders. Because popular iconic and written productions are the outcome of a network of political, economic, ideological and social circumstances that are often hardly detectable and too taken for granted to be critically recognized, even by those who draw, paint or write (and live) under their influence. That is why visual figurations of popular culture should be studied as the support of a deeply motivated symbolic discourse on the values shared by a community. This book deals, in a way or another, with how popular and visual artefacts and sceneries are socially built, preserved and/or contested. The volume brings together, not only different disciplinary perspectives, but also diverse empirical phenomena, while approaching the wide subject of visuality and popular culture.

The Handbook of Visual Culture

Author : Ian Heywood,Barry Sandywell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350026506

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The Handbook of Visual Culture by Ian Heywood,Barry Sandywell Pdf

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, material culture, sociology, cultural studies and art history. Throughout, the Handbook is responsive to the cross-disciplinary nature of many of the key questions raised in visual culture around digitization, globalization, cyberculture, surveillance, spectacle, and the role of art. The Handbook guides readers new to the area, as well as experienced researchers, into the topics, issues and questions that have emerged in the study of visual culture since the start of the new millennium, conveying the boldness, excitement and vitality of the subject.

Visual Culture: What is visual culture studies?

Author : Joanne Morra,Marquard Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 0415326427

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Visual Culture: What is visual culture studies? by Joanne Morra,Marquard Smith Pdf

These texts represent both the formation of visual culture, and the ways in which it has transformed, and continues to transform, our understanding and experience of the world as a visual domain.

Images in Use

Author : Matteo Stocchetti,Karin Kukkonen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789027284167

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Images in Use by Matteo Stocchetti,Karin Kukkonen Pdf

News coverage of EU negotiations, children’s war memories or TV series glamourising political processes – images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as “images in use”, this volume considers the agencies behind visual communication and its impact on society. Images in Use engages critically with traditional approaches to visual analysis, offers suggestions for alternative, socially situated analyses of images and demonstrates the explanatory force of thinking through “images in use” in a series of case studies. The conceptual contributions consider broader issues of critical theory, representation, as well as the mediatisation of politics. The case studies offer a survey of current visual communication including news coverage, political cartoons, political rhetoric, memory culture, celebrity humanitarianism, reality TV, as well as the narratives of blockbuster cinema and comics. This volume proposes a new approach to visual communication, situating images in their social contexts and identifying the real, rhetorical and political impact of their use.

Visual Culture

Author : Richard Howells,Joaquim Negreiros
Publisher : Polity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1509518770

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Visual Culture by Richard Howells,Joaquim Negreiros Pdf

This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our increasingly visual world. But, rather than simply providing set meanings to individual images, Visual Culture teaches readers how to interpret visual texts with their own eyes. While the first part of the book takes readers through differing theoretical approaches to visual analysis, the second part shifts to a medium-based analysis, connected by an underlying theme about the complex relationship between visual culture and reality. Howells and Negreiros draw together seemingly diverse methodologies, while ultimately arguing for a polysemic approach to visual analysis. The third edition of this popular book contains over fifty illustrations, for the first time in colour. Included in the revised text is a new section on images of power, fear and seduction, a new segment on video games, as well as fresh material on taste and judgement. This timely edition also offers a glossary and suggestions for further reading. Written in a clear, lively and engaging style, Visual Culture continues to be an ideal introduction for students taking courses in visual culture and communications in a range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, sociology, and art and design.

Visual Culture

Author : Jessica Evans,Stuart Hall
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0761962484

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A primary resource of key statements on photographic meaning, representation and visual culture. The editors combine classic and contemporary essays from a range of scholars including Barthes, Sontag, Baudrillard and Mulvey. The reader is divided into three parts, which present the culture of the image and the making of meaning; the history and theory of critical photography and the regulation of meaning; and the way in which differences of race, class, gender and sexuality are culturally constructed and represented. Black and white illustrations feature throughout.

Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004349377

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Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China by Anonim Pdf

Eight studies examine key features of Chinese visual and material cultures, ranging from tombs and ceramics to Buddhist paintings and colophons on calligraphies. The essays connect visual materials to funeral and religious practices, drama, poetry, literati life, travel, and trade.

Visual Culture: Spaces of visual culture

Author : Joanne Morra,Marquard Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415326443

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Visual Culture: Spaces of visual culture by Joanne Morra,Marquard Smith Pdf

These texts represent both the formation of visual culture, and the ways in which it has transformed, and continues to transform, our understanding and experience of the world as a visual domain.

Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture

Author : Ana Cristina Mendes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : 1138847240

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Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture by Ana Cristina Mendes Pdf

In Salman Rushdie's novels ,images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. This book sheds light on this largely unremarked dimension of the work of a major contemporary writer.

An Introduction to Visual Culture

Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000891584

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An Introduction to Visual Culture by Nicholas Mirzoeff Pdf

In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visible. In this view, visual culture is a practice: a way of doing, making, and seeing. The 12 new chapters begin with five foundational concepts, including Indigenous ways of seeing, visual activism in the wake of slavery, and unfixing the gaze. The second section outlines three currently successful tactics of visual activism: removal of statues and monuments; restitution of cultural property; and practices of repair and reparations. The final section addresses catastrophe and trauma, from Palestine’s Nakba to the climate disaster and the intersections of plague and war. Each section also includes new, in-depth case studies called "Visualizations," ranging from oil painting to Kongo power figures and the mediated practice of taking a knee. Engaging with questions of racializing, colonialism, and undoing gender throughout, this edition maps the activist turn in the field since 2014 and sets directions for its future expansion. This is a key text in visual culture studies and an essential resource for research and teaching in the field.

Semiotic Encounters

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042027152

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Semiotic Encounters by Anonim Pdf

Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation aims at opening up scholarly debates on the contemporary challenges of intertextuality in its various intersections with postcolonial and visual culture studies. Commencing with three theoretical contributions, which work towards the creation of frameworks under which intertextuality can be (re)viewed today, the volume then explores textual and visual encounters in a number of case studies. While (a) the dimension of the intertextual in the traditional sense (as specified e.g. by Genette) and (b) the widening of the concept towards visual and digital culture govern the structure of the volume, questions of the transnational and/or postcolonial form a recurrent subtext. The volume’s combination of theoretical discussions and case studies, which predominantly deal with ‘English classics’ and their rewritings, film adaptations and/or rereadings, will mainly attract graduate students and scholars working on contemporary literary theory, visual culture and postcolonial literatures.