Aesthetics of Image and Cultural Form - The Formal Method

Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to situate analysis of Image within 'formal' analyses of culture experience.

List of contents

Introduction The Lively Form of ‘Image’
Chapter 1 Towards a Theory of ‘Image’ and ‘Cultural Form’
Chapter 2 An Environmental Definition of Image
Chapter 3 ‘Image’ as The Sensual Form of Mass Media
Chapter 4 ‘The Prolific Image Makers of Our Times’
Conclusion: The ‘Aesthetic Regime’ of Visual Cultural Analysis
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Yi Chen is a Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies at University of the Arts London.

Summary

Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to situate analysis of Image within ‘formal’ analyses of culture experience.

Product details

• Authors: Yi Chen, Yi (University of the Arts London Chen, Chen Yi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032379241
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3237924-1
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Cultural Studies, Theory of art, ART / History / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics