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A General Theory of Visual Culture
Taschenbuch von Whitney Davis
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Whitney Davis
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 402
ISBN-13: 9780691178073
ISBN-10: 0691178070
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Davis, Whitney
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 254 x 178 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Whitney Davis
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2017
Gewicht: 0,753 kg
preigu-id: 108872714
Über den Autor
Whitney Davis
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 402
ISBN-13: 9780691178073
ISBN-10: 0691178070
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Davis, Whitney
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 254 x 178 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Whitney Davis
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2017
Gewicht: 0,753 kg
preigu-id: 108872714
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