Interpreting Visual Culture : Explorations in the Hermeneutics of Vision

ISBN-13: 9780415157094 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 280 str.

Barry Sandywell; Ian Heywood

Opis

The role of the visual and human perception is increasingly being seen as central to an understanding of the contemporary human condition. This text brings together the writings of 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, this collection presents material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture. Topics covered include: the hermeneutics of seeing; the visual rhetoric of modernity; the drawings of Bonnard; recent feminist art; and practices and perceptions in art and ethics. The book is divided into three main sections, each beginning with an introductory chapter outlining the main topics under discussion. It should be of interest to students of sociology, cultural studies and art history.

O autorze

Ian Heywood, Barry Sandywell