Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081956267X ISBN 13: 9780819562678

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Fifteen key art historians and cultural critics redefine the scope and concerns of scholarship on visual culture―a history of representation seen as something different from a history of art.

"We can no longer see, much less teach, transhistorical truths, timeless works of art, and unchanging critical criteria without a highly developed sense of irony about the grand narratives of the past," declare the editors, who also coedited Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation (1990). The field of art history is not unique in finding itself challenged and enlarged by cultural debates over issues of class, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and gender. Visual Culture assembles some of the foremost scholars of cultural studies and art history to explore new critical approaches to a history of representation seen as something
different from a history of art.

CONTRIBUTORS: Andres Ross, Michael Ann Holly, Mieke Bal, David Summers, Constance Penley, Kaja Silverman, Ernst Van Alphen, Norman Bryson, Wolfgang Kemp, Whitney Davis, Thomas Crow, Keith Moxey, John Tagg, Lisa Tickner.

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About the Author

NORMAN BRYSON is Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University and author of Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (1990).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081956267X
• ISBN 13: 9780819562678
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 461
• Editor: Bryson Norman, Holly Michael Ann, Moxey Keith