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Interpreting visual culture : explorations in the hermeneutics of the visual / edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Vision.
- Hermeneutics.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Art and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 260 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, it presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture.Among topics covered are:* the visual rhetoric of modernity* the drawings of Bonnard* recent feminist art* practices and perception in arts and ethics.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; 1 The hermeneutics of seeing; 2 Specular grammar; 3 Bakhtin and the metaphorics of perception; 4 Durkheim's double vision; 5 Readers of the lost art; 6 Seeing becoming drawing; 7 The 'real realm'; 8 The denigration of vision and the renewal of painting; 9 My philosophical project and the empty jug; 10 'Ever more specific'; 11 Aporia of the sensible; Appendix: the original project; Select bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-72922-7
- 1-134-72923-5
- 1-280-13981-1
- 0-203-98459-5
- 9780203984598
- OCLC:
- 299571985
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