James Elkins

Visual Cultures

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, featuring authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland and Slovenia. Focusing on the national instead of the global, distinguished art critic James Elkins offers a critique of general histories of visuality, such as those of Martin Jay or Jean Baudrillard, as well as a critique of local histories of visuality, as in Third Text and other postcolonial studies. The content is not only analytic, but also historical, tracing changes in the significance of visual and verbal literacy in each nation. Visual Cultures also explores questions of national identity and the many issues Elkins raises suggest a wealth of promising avenues for future research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9781841503073
• ISBN-10: 184150307X
• Artikelnr.: 28433506

Autorenporträt

James Elkins teaches in the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. A recent book is What Heaven Looks Like, which ponders a mysterious eighteenth-century manuscript as if it were a contemporary artwork. Since Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History, he has been at work on an experimental novel - something that takes longer than a monograph to complete.

Contact: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 36 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, USA.