Chris Jenks

Visual Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, The 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and penetrating 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780415106238
• ISBN-10: 0415106230
• Artikelnr.: 21210705

Autorenporträt

Chris Jenks

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 THE CENTRALITY OF THE EYE IN WESTERN CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION
2 ADVERTISING: THE RHETORICAL IMPERATIVE
3 REPORTING AND VISUALISING
4 FRACTURED SUBJECTIVITY
5 THE CITY
THE CINEMA: MODERN SPACES
6 FABULOUS CONFUSION! POP BEFORE POP?
7 AN ART OF SCHOLARS: CORRUPTION
NEGATION AND PARTICULARITY IN PAINTINGS BY RYMAN AND RICHTER
8 WATCHING YOUR STEP: THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF THE FLANEUR
9 REICH DREAMS: RITUAL HORROR AND ARMOURED BODIES
10 TELEVISION: NOT SO MUCH A VISUAL MEDIUM
MORE A VISIBLE OBJECT
11 FOUCAULT'S OPTICS: THE (IN) VISION OF MORTALITY AND MODERNITY
12 MANAGING 'TRADITION': THE PLIGHT OF AESTHETIC PRACTICES AND THEIR ANALYSIS IN A TECHNO SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
13 PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODERN VISION: THE SPECTACLE OF 'NATURAL MAGIC'
14 THREE IMAGES OF THE VISUAL: EMPIRICAL
FORMAL AND NORMATIVE
Index