Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of Vision

by Ian Heywood (Editor), Barry Sandywell (Editor)

Overview

Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, it presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture.
Among topics covered are:
* the visual rhetoric of modernity
* the drawings of Bonnard
* recent feminist art
* practices and perception in arts and ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415157100
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/03/1998
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ian Heywood, Barry Sandywell

Table of Contents

List of illustrations, List of contributors, Introduction: explorations in the hermeneutics of vision, PART I Rethinking the visual in contemporary theory, PART II Rethinking the visual in art: the challenge to contemporary theorizing, PART III Towards an ethics of the visual, Appendix: the original project, Select bibliography, Index

What People are Saying About This

Professor Boyne

Interpreting Visual Culture extends the range of serious reflection on ideologies of the optical…It can be recommended to everyone who has an interest in contemporary cultural theory.
—(Professor Roy Boyne, Chair of Sociology, University of Durham)

Editorial Reviews

Brings together writings of some of the leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies, presenting the latest material on interpretation of the visual in modern culture. Topics covered include a hermeneutics of seeing, the visual rhetoric of modernity, recent feminist art, and practices and perceptions in art and ethics. Chapters are divided into three sections on rethinking the visual in contemporary theory, the challenge to contemporary theorizing, and an ethics of the visual. Each section begins with an introductory chapter outlining min topics of discussion. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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