Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of Vision

by Heywood; Ian

• ISBN13: 9780415157094
• ISBN10: 0415157099
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Interpreting Visual Culturebrings together the writings of some of the leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies to look at the role of perception and the "visual" in our understanding of the contemporary human condition. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to a discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, this collection presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture. Topics covered include: the hermeneutics of seeing, the visual rhetoric of modernity, the drawings of Bonnard, recent feminist art, practices and perceptions in art and ethics. Divided into three main sections, each beginning with an introductory chapter outlining the main topics under discussion, comprehensive and engaging,Interpreting Visual Culturewill be essential reading for students of sociology, cultural studies and art history.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii	(1)
List of contributors	viii
Introduction: explorations in the hermeneutics of vision	ix
IAN HEYWOOD
BARRY SANDYWELL
PART I Rethinking the visual in contemporary theory	1	(96)
1 The hermeneutics of seeing	3	(27)
NICHOLAS DAVEY
2 Specular grammar: the visual rhetoric of modernity	30	(27)
BARRY SANDYWELL
3 Bakhtin and the metaphorics of perception	57	(17)
MICHAEL GARDINER
4 Durkheim's double vision	74	(23)
CHRIS JENKS
PART II Rethinking the visual in art: the challenge to contemporary theorizing	97	(86)
5 Readers of the lost art: visuality and particularity in art criticism	99	(24)
NIGEL WHITELEY
6 Seeing becoming drawing: the interplay of eyes, hands and surfaces in the drawings of Pierre Bonnard	123	(20)
MICHAEL PHILLIPSON
CHRIS FISHER
7 The `real realm': value and values in recent feminist art	143	(19)
DIANE HILL
8 The denigration of vision and the renewal of painting	162	(21)
JOHN A. SMITH
PART III Towards an ethics of the visual	183	(55)
9 My philosophical project and the empty jug	185	(13)
DAVID MICHAEL LEVIN
10 `Ever more specific': practices and perception in art and ethics	198	(20)
IAN HEYWOOD
11 Aporia of the sensible: art, objecthood and anthropomorphism	218	(20)
J.M. BERNSTEIN
Appendix: the original project	238	(13)
Select bibliography	251	(7)
Index	258