TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,John A.
AU  - Chaplin,Sarah
TI  - Visual culture: an introduction 
SN  - 9780719050206 (pbk.) :
U1  - 700.103 WAL 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Arts, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - Art and Design
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Material culture
KW  - thema
KW  - Cultural studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1.Concepts of culture -- 2.The concepts of the visual -- 3.Visual culture as a field of study, and the origins of visual culture studies -- 4.Coping with theory -- 5.Production, distribution and consumption model -- 6.Institutions -- 7.Looks, the gaze and surveillance -- 8.Visual literacy and visual poetics -- 9.Modes of analysis -- 10.The pleasures of visual culture -- 11.The canon and concepts of value -- 12.Visual culture and commerce -- 13.New technologies
N2  - The only guide at present written specifically for undergraduates, this book offers an introduction to the expanding realm of visual culture
ER  -