The handbook of visual culture /

The handbook of visual culture / edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell with Michael Gardiner, Gunalan Nadarajan and Catherine Soussloff. - London : Bloomsbury, 2017. - xii, 792 pages: 24 cm

Includes bibliographic references and index

Part one: Historical and theoretical perspectives -- Part two: Art and visuality -- Part three: Aesthetics, politics and visual culture -- Part four: Practices and institutions of visual culture -- Part five: Developments in the field of visual culture.

The handbook embraces the extraordinary range of disciplines which now engage the study of the visual -- film and photography, television, fashion, visual arts, digital media, geography, philosophy, architecture, material culture, sociology, cultural studies and art history. Throughout, the Handbook is responsive to the cross-disciplinary nature of many of the key questions raised in visual culture around digitization, globalization, cyberculture, surveillance, spectacle, and the role of art.


in English

978-1-3500-1247-9


Art and society
Culture
Visual perception
Cultural studies
Visual communication
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Art--Criticism & Theory
Art--Popular culture
Social science--Anthropology--Cultural
Theory of art

700.103 H19 2017