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: hbk ISBN 9780333772874
Description
This text provides an accessible critical introduction to a variety of different analytic strategies for understanding the range of objects (paintings, sculpture, adverts, furniture, textiles, photography, fashion, etc.) that make up visual culture. Beginning with a discussion of what understanding can be taken to mean in relation to visual culture, it devotes separate chapters to different approaches to its study, using carefully chosen examples to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of these. The major figures associated with particular analytic strategies (Hebdige, Panofsky, Barthes, Wolff, etc.) are critically discussed throughout. Alternative, more advanced readings are also explored and crucial questions posed, such as 'Are we always, or ever, in control of our understanding?'
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Understanding Visual Culture.- Explanation and Understanding: Visual Culture and Social Science.- Interpretation and the Individual.- Expression and Communication.- Feminism: Personal and Political.- Marxism and the Social History of Visual Culture.- Semiology, Iconology and Iconography.- Form and Style.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.
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: pbk ISBN 9780333772881
Description
This text provides an accessible critical introduction to a variety of different analytic strategies for understanding the range of objects (paintings, sculpture, adverts, furniture, textiles, photography, fashion, etc.) that make up visual culture. Beginning with a discussion of what understanding can be taken to mean in relation to visual culture, it devotes separate chapters to different approaches to its study, using carefully chosen examples to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of these. The major figures associated with particular analytic strategies (Hebdige, Panofsky, Barthes, Wolff, etc.) are critically discussed throughout. Alternative, more advanced readings are also explored and crucial questions posed, such as 'Are we always, or ever, in control of our understanding?'
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Understanding Visual Culture.- Explanation and Understanding: Visual Culture and Social Science.- Interpretation and the Individual.- Expression and Communication.- Feminism: Personal and Political.- Marxism and the Social History of Visual Culture.- Semiology, Iconology and Iconography.- Form and Style.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.
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