Travelling Images - Looking Across the Borderlands of Art, Media and Visual Culture

This book critically examines images in the borderlands of the art world, investigating relations between visual art and vernacular visual culture within different images communities from the 1870s to the present day. It concentrates on the mechanisms of such processes and their implications for the understanding of art and art-historical narratives. Merging perspectives from art history and visual culture studies with media studies, it fills a gap in the field of visual studies through its use of a diversity of images as prime sources. Where textual statements are scarce the book maps visual statements instead, demonstrating the potential of image studies. Consequently, it will be of great relevance to those interested in art and visual culture in modernity, as well as discourses of the notion of art and art history writing.

List of contents

Introduction: travelling images
1 Cut and paste
2 Modernism in the streets
3 Magazined art
4 Imposter art
Index

About the author

Anna Dahlgren is Professor of Art History at Stockholm University

Summary

This book examines the borderlands of the art world and the relations between art and visual mass culture in modernity. It includes case studies on photocollage, window displays, fashion photography and contemporary fine art. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Anna Dahlgren
• Assisted by: Marsha Meskimmon (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781526126641
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2664-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Rethinking Art's Histories; Rethinking Arts Histories Mup; Rethinking Art's Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -