A general theory of visual culture
What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory...
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| Natura: | Livre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Princeton (New Jersey) ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press
2022.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • A general theory of visual culture, Whitney Davis, 2011, Princeton (New Jersey), Princeton University Press, 1 vol. (XVI-384 p.), 978-0-691-17807-3 |
| Riassunto: | What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory of Visual Culture argues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifacts and pictures have been made to be seen in a certain way; what Davis calls visuality is the visual perspective from which certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. In this book, Davis provides a systematic analysis of visuality and describes how it comes into being as a historical form of vision. Expansive in scope, A General Theory of Visual Culture draws on art history, aesthetics, the psychology of perception, the philosophy of reference, and vision science, as well as visual-cultural studies in history, sociology, and anthropology. It provides penetrating new definitions of form, style, and iconography, and draws important and sometimes surprising conclusions (for example, that vision does not always attain to visual culture, and that visual culture is not always wholly visible). The book uses examples from a variety of cultural traditions, from prehistory to the twentieth century, to support a theory designed to apply to all human traditions of making artifacts and pictures--that is, to visual culture as a worldwide phenomenon |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9781400836437.jpg Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Arts |
| Bibliografia: | Bibliogr.. p. 341-374. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781400836437 |
| Accesso: | L'accès en ligne est réservé aux établissements ou bibliothèques ayant souscrit l'abonnement. Cyberlibris |