Interpreting Visual Culture Explorations in the Hermeneutics of Vision

Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, it presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture.
Among topics covered are:
* the visual rhetoric of modernity
* the drawings of Bonnard
* recent feminist art
* practices and perception in arts and ethics.

About the author

Ian Heywood, Barry Sandywell

Summary

Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, this collection presents material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture

Product details

• Assisted by: Ian Heywood (Editor), Barry Sandywell (Editor), Heywood Ian (Editor), Sandywell Barry (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 03.12.1998
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780415157100
• ISBN: 978-0-415-15710-0
• Pages: 278
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Dimensions (packing): 15.6 x 23.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 520 g
• Subjects: Sociology, Sociology of Art, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Visual Semiotics, art theory analysis, contemporary visual hermeneutics research, cultural visual studies, feminist visual interpretation, ethics of seeing