The Handbook of Visual Culture

by Heywood, Ian; Sandywell, Barry

• ISBN13: 9781847885739
• ISBN10: 184788573X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-28
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of analysis. Bringing together leading international scholars to assess all aspects of visual culture, the Handbookaims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the subject. The Handbook embraces the extraordinary range of disciplines which now engage in the study of the visual - film and photography, television, fashion, visual arts, digital media, geography, philosophy, architecture, material culture, sociology, cultural studies and art history. Throughout, the Handbook is responsive to the cross-disciplinary nature of many of the key questions raised in visual culture around digitization, globalization, cyberculture, surveillance, spectacle, and the role of art. The Handbookguides readers new to the area, as well as experienced researchers, into the topics, issues and questions that have emerged in the study of visual culture since the start of the new millennium, conveying the boldness, excitement and vitality of the subject.

Author Biography

Ian Heywood is Visiting Research Fellow at the Lancaster Centre for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, UK, and author of Social Theories of Art: A Critique among other works. Barry Sandywell is Honorary Research Fellow in Social Theory in the Department of Sociology, University of York, UK. He is author of Dictionary of Visual Discourse. A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms and Logological Investigation, among other works, and is co-editor with Ian Heywood of Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Visual. Michael Gardiner is Professor of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, Canada. Gunalan Nadarajan is Vice Provost for Research, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA. Catherine Soussloff is Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz Division, USA.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. XI
Acknowledgments	p. XIII
Contributors	p. XV
Critical Approaches to the Study of Visual Culture: An Introduction to the Handbook	p. 1
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Editorial Introduction	p. 59
Major Theoretical Frameworks in Visual Culture	p. 68
Towards a New Visual Studies and Aesthetics: Theorizing the Turns	p. 90
Scopic Regimes of Modernity Revisited	p. 102
Phenomenology and Its Shadow: Visuality in the Late Work of Merleau-Ponty	p. 115
Hermeneutical Aesthetics and an Ontogeny of the Visual	p. 131
Art and Visuality
Editorial Introduction	p. 155
Visual Culture and Contemporary Art: Reframing the Picture, Recasting the Object?	p. 164
Beyond Museology: Reframing the Sensorium	p. 184
Cubism and the Iconic Turn: A Climate of Practice, the Object and Representation	p. 200
Reframing Nature: The Visual Experience of Early Mountaineering	p. 220
The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture	p. 235
Aesthetics, Politics and Visual Culture
Editorial Introduction	p. 281
Sociology of the Spectacle: Politics, Terror, Desire	p. 290
Art, Feminism and Visual Culture	p. 310
Visual Consciousness: The Impact of New Media on Literate Culture	p. 326
The 'Dictatorship of the Eye': Henri Lefebvre on Vision, Space and Modernity	p. 342
Cubist Collage and Visual Culture: Representation and Politics	p. 361
Practices and Institutions of Visual Culture
Editorial Introduction	p. 389
Looking Sharp: Fashion Studies	p. 405
Seeing Things: Apprehending Material Culture	p. 426
Photography and Visual Culture	p. 445
Television as a Global Visual Medium	p. 464
Film and Visual Culture	p. 480
Pragmatic Vision: Connecting Aesthetics, Materiality and Culture in Landscape Architectural Practice	p. 499
Images and Information in Cultures of Consumption	p. 516
Developments in the Field of Visual Culture
Editorial Introduction	p. 535
The Question of Method: Practice, Reflexivity and Critique in Visual Culture Studies	p. 542
Digital Art and Visual Culture	p. 559
Digitalization, Visualization and the 'Descriptive Turn' in Contemporary Sociology	p. 572
Action-based Visual and Creative Methods in Social Research	p. 589
Neuroscience and the Nature of Visual Culture	p. 607
Re-visualizing Anthropology through the Lens of The Ethnographer's Eye David Howes	p. 628
Seven Theses on Visual Culture: Towards a Critical-Reflexive Paradigm for the New Visual Studies	p. 648
Mapping the Visual Field: A Bibliographical Guide	p. 674
Name Index	p. 765
Subject Index	p. 775
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