Visual culture studies / [edited by] Marquard Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Marquard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Culture.

Visual communication.

Visual perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 239 p.)

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, c2008.

Los Angeles : SAGE, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection comprises interviews with an array of influential American and European intellectuals from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences working today on visual culture within the university context and beyond.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION - Visual Culture Studies: History, Theory, Practice; 1 - VISUAL CULTURE, EVERYDAY LIFE, DIFFERENCE, AND VISUAL LITERACY; 2 - MIXING IT UP: THE MEDIA, THE SENSES, AND GLOBAL POLITICS; 3 - GLOBALIZATION, COSMOPOLITANISM, POLITICS, AND THE CITIZEN; 4 - ON THE STATE OF CULTURAL STUDIES; 5 - DISABILIT Y STUDIES, THE HUMANITIES, AND THE LIMITS OF THE VISIBLE; 6 - NAMING, NETWORKS, AND SCIENTIFIC REGIMES OF VISION; 7 - PHENOMENOLOGY, MASS MEDIA, AND BEING-IN-THE-WORLD; 8 - PERFORMANCE, LIVE CULTURE AND THINGS OF THE HEART

9 - CULTURAL CARTOGRAPHY, MATERIALITY AND THE FASHIONING OF EMOTION10 - VISUAL STUDIES, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND AESTHETICS; 11 - THAT VISUAL TURN: THE ADVENT OF VISUAL CULTURE; 12 - POLEMICS, POSTMODERNISM, IMMERSION, MILITARIZED SPACE; 13 - THE OBJECT OF VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES, AND PREPOSTEROUS HISTORY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613289421

9781446213957

1446213951

9781283289429

1283289423

9781446202753

1446202755

OCLC:

756484478