John R Hall / Lisa Tamiris Becker / Blake Stimson (eds.)

Visual Worlds

Herausgeber: Hall, John R; Becker, Lisa Tamiris; Stimson, Blake

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

considering the changing character of visual experience today. This book will attract readers from a wide range of academic disciplines and will especially be valuable as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in visual culture and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780415362122
• ISBN-10: 0415362121
• Artikelnr.: 21335778

Autorenporträt

John R. Hall is Professor of Sociology at the University of California - Davis and Visiting Professor at the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh. Blake Stimson is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. Lisa Tamiris Becker is Director of the CU Art Museum and the Colorado Collection, Colorado, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Visual Cultures and Visual Worlds Part 1: Cultures Political
Culture 1. Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation 2. Televisual
Popular Politics: Diana and Democracy 3. Manufacturing Dissent: Challenges
for Activism and Alternative Voices in the Post 9/11 World Visual Culture
4. Art at the Intersection of Social Fields 5. Heart of Darkness: A Journey
into the Dark Matter of the Art World 6. Primetime Art as Seen on Melrose
Place Part 2: Worlds Social Worlds 7. Electronic Habitus Agit-Prop in an
Imaginary World 8. Los Angeles as Visual World: Media, Seeing and the City
9. Photography's Decline into Modernism: In praise of 'Bad' Photographs 10.
Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in
Photographs) Warring Worlds 11. Witness to Surrender 12. Under Siege: Mona
Hatoum's Art of Displacement 13. Mea Culpa: On Residual Culture and the
Turn to Ethics Epilogue Visual Worlds, after 9/11