Sociology and visual representation / Elizabeth Chaplin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chaplin, Elizabeth, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--History--20th century.

Art and society.

Visual communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-90604-8

0-203-31161-2

1-134-90605-6

1-280-32111-3

0-203-41672-4

9780203416723

OCLC:

171116826