Visual Culture

Editorial Reviews
The New Art Examiner
"The essays in this collection both search back through the last two centuries to look for the foundations of our use of visuality and skim across the surface of contemporary though t. They cover most of the salient topics of the last two decades, from Baudelaire to Baselitz, from Metropolis to Robocop, from fracture to flaneur, from adverstising rhetoric to the persistence of fascist imagery, and from the domineering politics of the male gaze to the dilated pupils of T.V. hypnosis. Mostly, however, they are an attempt to bring analytical and positivist approaches in line with Postmodern thought on visual culture.."

Martin Jay, University of California at Berkeley
"What has become known as the ``visual turn'' in contemporary cultural theory finds in this lively collection a wealth of stimulating exemplars. Visual Culture provides fresh perspectives on a wide range of interlocking themes, from optical technologies to models of specularity, from avant-garde art to popular culture, from urban landscapes to the interiority of the modern subject." --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

Visual Culture

Visual Culture,CHRIS JENKS,Routledge,0415106230,20th century,Anthropology - General,Archaeology / Anthropology,Arts and society,Arts, Modern,General,Popular culture,Science/Mathematics,Visual communication,Anthropology,Cultural studies,Social groups & communities

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