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This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis's acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory, presenting an exacting new account of the interaction that occurs when a viewer looks at a picture. A profound new theory of the work of both makers and viewers by one of the discipline's most esteemed and engaged thinkers, Visuality and Virtuality is essential reading for art historians, architects, archaeologists, and philosophers of art and visual theory.
About the author
Whitney Davis is the George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include A General Theory of Visual Culture (Princeton) and Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond.
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A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis's acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewer
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"Here at last is a theory of art history that is insistently visual. One of the pleasures of reading Davis is that one feels once again that giants walk the land."--John Onians, author of Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki
