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Format: 1 online resource (816 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781350026506

Content: A broad international overview of research across all aspects of visual culture. Designed for graduate students and scholars as the ultimate desktop reference

Note: Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Critical Approaches to the Study of Visual Culture: An Introduction to the Handbook -- Overview of Contents -- The Rationale and Approach of the Handbook: To wards Reflexive Visual Studies -- New Visual Studies -- Critical Themes -- So me Preliminary Distinctions -- The Visual Turn? -- What Is 'Visual Culture'? -- To wards a Renewal of Visual Studies: Dimensions of a New Visual Studies -- Conclusion: The Future(s) of Transdisciplinary Research -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives -- Editorial Introduction -- 1: Major Theoretical Frameworks in Visual Culture -- The Visual Turn -- The Cultural Turn and 'Emergence' of Visual Culture -- From Art History to a History of Images -- The Visual and the Cultural in Visual Studies -- The Verbal and the Visual -- Practices of Seeing -- Visual Culture and the Po stmodern -- Between Art History and Cultural Studies -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 2: Towards a New Visual Studies and Aesthetics: Theorizing the Turns -- Introduction -- The Postmodern Turn -- The Turn to Interdisciplinarity -- The Aesthetic Turn -- To wards a Dialectical Turn in Contemporary Visuality -- Notes -- References -- 3: Scopic Regimes of Modernity Revisited -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- 4: Phenomenology and Its Shadow: Visuality in the Late Work of Merleau-Ponty -- The 'Philosophy of Reflection' and Its Disco ntents -- Vision, Reversibility and 'Perspectivalism' -- Alterity and 'Primordial Being' -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- 5: Hermeneutical Aesthetics and an Ontogenyof the Visual -- Introduction: On Clarity and Distinctiveness -- The Revolutionary Road -- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes -- Now You See It, Now You Don't , 16: Looking Sharp: Fashion Studies -- History and Origins -- Main Perspectives and Approaches -- Conclusion: New Agendas/Further Research -- Further Reading -- References -- 17: Seeing Things: Apprehending Material Culture -- The Metaphor of Language -- Looking at Things -- Apperception -- Appresentation -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- 18: Photography and Visual Culture -- The Question of 'Post-Photography' -- Photography and Everyday Life -- Digital Sharing -- The Pain of Others: The Photograph as Document and Witness -- Negotiating the Past: The Role of Photography in the Memory Museum -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- 19: Television as a Global Visual Medium -- The 'Americanization' of Global Television -- New Directions in Global Television Flow -- Emotional Engagements -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- 20: Film and Visual Culture -- The Crisis in Film Studies -- The Turn to History: Film and Modernity -- The Reshaping of Film: Production Technologies and Consumption -- The Evolution of Film: New Forms and Practices-Digital Film Aesthetics -- Film and Visual Culture -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- 21: Pragmatic Vision: Connecting Aesthetics, Materiality and Culture in Landscape Architectural Practice -- Redefining Perception -- Emerging Design Practice -- Design Dichotomy -- Challenging Foundational Theories of Perception -- Fragmenting Consciousness -- Cultural Misconceptions -- Epistemological Crises -- Implications for Design Pedagogy -- The Pragmatic Approach -- Reworking Perception -- The Design Process -- The Artistic, Critical Basis of Design Discourse -- Shaping the Quality of Experience -- Further Reading -- Note -- References -- 22: Images and Information in Cultures of Consumption -- Consuming Images -- The Visual Face of Capitalism , Cultural Archetypes -- What Is That All About? -- Use It or Lose It -- Hermeneutical Aesthetics and a Kind of Looking -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Art and Visuality -- Editorial Introduction -- 6: Visual Culture and Contemporary Art: Reframing the Picture, Recasting the Object? -- Reinvigoration -- Threat and Antagonism -- The Challenge to Autonomy -- Rethinking the Relations of Art and Its Other -- The Shift from Object to Sign -- Intertexuality and Authorship -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- 7: Beyond Museology: Reframing the Sensorium -- Reframing Visuality -- Mary in the Museum -- Narcissus in the Gallery -- Making the Legible Visible -- The Exit to the Museum Is Just Another Picture on the Wall? -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- 8: Cubism and the Iconic Turn: A Climate of Practice, the Object and Representation -- Art's Crises, Cultural Theory and Hypoc hondriacal Reflection -- Objet/Table, Image/Tableau -- Representation, Metaphor and Apparitions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9: Reframing Nature: The Visual Experience of Early Mountaineering -- The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Development of Mo untaineering in Britain -- The View from the Top -- Becoming Master of the Prospect -- Mountain Spectacle -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- 10: The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture -- The Significance of Street Art in Contemporary Visual Culture -- Contexts of Street Art 1990-2010: Reception, Theory and Practice -- Street Art and the Global City: All-City to All-Cities -- Extramuros/Intramuros: Streets, Cities, Walls -- Street Art and Rewriting the City -- The Contest of Visibility -- Conclusions and Consequences: Street Art in the Dialogical Field of Art -- Street Art and Contemporary Hybridity, Remix and Appropriation: The Implications of Read-Write Visual Culture , Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Aesthetics, Politics and Visual Culture -- Editorial Introduction -- 11: Sociology of the Spectacle: Politics, Terror, Desire -- Futurism and the Shock of the New -- Situationism and the Society of the Spectacle -- Aura and Sublime -- Cinematic Spectacle -- To wards the Interactive Spectacle: Trends in Public Art and Architecture -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- 12: Art, Feminism and Visual Culture -- Feminist Film Theory and Practice -- Feminism and the Theory of the Gaze -- The Cultural Turn and Feminist Art History -- The Gaze in Art History and Film Studies -- Art Practice and Feminism -- Feminist Critical Art Practice and Visual Culture in the 2000s -- New Media, Feminism and Visual Culture -- Embodiment -- Art, Technology and Visual Culture -- Overviews of the Visual Culture Field That Emphasize Feminism and Art -- Further Reading -- References -- 13: Visual Consciousness: The Impact of New Media on Literate Culture -- Image to Text-and Back Again -- Bodenlos -- Gestures -- Apparatus -- Art -- Further Reading -- References -- 14: The 'Dictatorship of the Eye': Henri Lefebvre on Vision, Space and Modernity -- The Production of 'Abstract Space' -- The 'Logic of Visualization' -- The Revolt of the (Multisensory) Body -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- 15: Cubist Collage and Visual Culture: Representation and Politics -- Visual Culture Studies and Postmodernity -- Culture and Modernity -- From Cultural Studies to Culture in Ruins -- Cubism: Making a Start -- Frames, Framing and Authenticity -- Collage and the Politics of Form: Newspapers, Wallpaper and Symbolism -- Collage and Politics -- Collage and Images of Modernity -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Part IV: Practices and Institutions of Visual Culture -- Editorial Introduction , Mediation: Paradigms of Advertising -- Digital Mediations -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Part V: Developments in the Field of Visual Culture -- Editorial Introduction -- 23: The Question of Method: Practice, Reflexivity and Critique in Visual Culture Studies -- The Implicit Methodology of Visual Culture Studies: Another Kind of Connoisseurship? -- To wards a Methodology for Performing Acts of Seeing -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- 24: Digital Art and Visual Culture -- Further Reading -- References -- 25: Digitalization, Visualization and the 'Descriptive Turn' in Contemporary Sociology -- Epochalism/Digitalization -- Digitalization and the Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology -- Digital Data -- A Typology of Digital Objects -- Spimes -- Dealing with Data Inundation: To wards a 'Lyrical Sociology' or towards the Development of More Mundane Inscription Devices? -- Visual Inscription Devices for the Descriptive Turn? -- Concluding Comments -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- 26: Action-based Visualand Creative Methods in Social Research -- The Emergence of Visual Sociology -- Why Use Creative Methods? -- Making Drawings and Diagrams -- Making Photographs and Videos -- Telling and Editing Stories -- Video-making as Audience Research -- Mixing Methods and Approaches -- Using Metaphor in Social Research -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Note -- References -- 27: Neuroscience and the Nature of Visual Culture -- Neuroscience and Visual Culture -- Neural Plasticity -- Neural Mirroring -- The Future -- Further Reading -- References -- 28: Re-visualizing Anthropology through the Lens of The Ethnographer's Eye -- Textualizing Anthropology -- Visualizing Anthropology -- Rivers's Unoptical Unconscious -- The Measurement of the Senses -- Sensualizing Anthropology -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes , References

Additional Edition: Print version Heywood, Ian The Handbook of Visual Culture London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2011 ISBN 9781847885739

Language: English

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