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.

List of contents

List of illustrations, List of contributors, Introduction: explorations in the hermeneutics of vision, PART I Rethinking the visual in contemporary theory, PART II Rethinking the visual in art: the challenge to contemporary theorizing, PART III Towards an ethics of the visual, Appendix: the original project, Select bibliography, Index

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), Heywood Ian (Editor), Barry Sandywell (Editor), Sandywell Barry (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.1998
• EAN: 9780415157094
• ISBN: 978-0-415-15709-4
• No. of pages: 278
• Weight: 670 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social