Art, Design and Visual Culture, an Introduction

Barnard, Malcolm

ISBN 10: 0333675266 / ISBN 13: 9780333675267

Published by Macmillan, London, 1998

About this Item

1st edition in softcover format, 8vo, 214pp, photo illustrations, card covers; VG+/Fine Copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art, Design and Visual Culture, an Introduction
• Publisher: Macmillan, London
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333675266
• ISBN 13: 9780333675267
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social History
  • Art & Art History
  • Philosophy & Psychology

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Synopsis

Why do we have the visual experiences we have? Why do the buildings, cars, products and advertisements we see look the way they do? How are we to explain the existence of different styles of paintings, different types of cars and different genres of film? How are we to explain the existence of different visual cultures? This book begins to answer these questions by explaining visual experience in terms of visual culture. The strengths and weaknesses of traditional means of analysing and explaining visual culture are examined and assessed. Using a wide range of historical and contemporary examples, it is argued that the groups which artists and designers form, the audiences and markets which they sell to, and the different social classes which are produced and reproduced by art and design, are all part of the successful explanation and critical evaluation of visual culture.

About the Author

Malcolm Barnard is Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Art and Design at the University of Derby. He is also Admissions Tutor for the BA (Hons) degree in Visual Culture. He has published in the areas of recent French philosophy, advertising and fashion and his most recent book is Fashion as Communication(Routledge).