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Visual culture / edited by Chris Jenks.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1995.Description: xi, 269p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415106221 (hbk.) :
  • 9780415106238 (pbk.) :
  • 0415106230 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 JEN
LOC classification:
  • N72.S6.V57 1995
Contents:
The Centrality of the eye in western culture: an introduction / Chris Jenks -- Advertising: the rhetorical imperative / Malcolm Barnard -- Reporting and visualising / Andrew Barry -- Fractured subjectivity / Roy Boyne -- The City, the cinema: modern spaces / James Donald -- Fabulous confusion! Pop before pop? / Dick Hebdige -- An Art of scholars: corruption, negation and particularity in paintings by Ryman and Richter / Ian Heywood -- Watching your step: the history and practice of the fla^neur / Chris Jenks -- Reich dreams: ritual horror and armoured bodies / Justin J. Lorentzen --Television: not so much a visual medium, more a visual object / David Morley -- Foucault's optics: the (in) vision of mortality and modernity / John O'Neill -- Managing 'tradition': the plight of aesthetic practices and their analysis in a technoscientific culture / Michael Phillipson -- Photography and modern vision: the spectacle of 'natural magic' / Don Slater -- Three images of the visual: empirical, formal and normative / John A. Smith.
Summary: This is a collection of original and critical essays addressing 'visual' as social and cultural process. The book exposes the organised but implicit structuring of a highly significant yet utterly routine dimension of social relations, the 'seen'.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 306 JEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00212844
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 306 JEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 110582

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Centrality of the eye in western culture: an introduction / Chris Jenks -- Advertising: the rhetorical imperative / Malcolm Barnard -- Reporting and visualising / Andrew Barry -- Fractured subjectivity / Roy Boyne -- The City, the cinema: modern spaces / James Donald -- Fabulous confusion! Pop before pop? / Dick Hebdige -- An Art of scholars: corruption, negation and particularity in paintings by Ryman and Richter / Ian Heywood -- Watching your step: the history and practice of the fla^neur / Chris Jenks -- Reich dreams: ritual horror and armoured bodies / Justin J. Lorentzen --Television: not so much a visual medium, more a visual object / David Morley -- Foucault's optics: the (in) vision of mortality and modernity / John O'Neill -- Managing 'tradition': the plight of aesthetic practices and their analysis in a technoscientific culture / Michael Phillipson -- Photography and modern vision: the spectacle of 'natural magic' / Don Slater -- Three images of the visual: empirical, formal and normative / John A. Smith.

This is a collection of original and critical essays addressing 'visual' as social and cultural process. The book exposes the organised but implicit structuring of a highly significant yet utterly routine dimension of social relations, the 'seen'.

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