General Theory of Visual Culture

Name: General Theory of Visual Culture
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ISBN: 9780691147659

ISBN-10: 0691147655

ISBN-13: 9780691147659

Edition: 2011

Authors: Whitney Davis

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What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history,A General Theory of Visual Cultureargues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifacts and pictures have been made to be seen in a certain way; what Davis calls "visuality" is the visual perspective from which certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. In this book, Davis provides a systematic analysis of visuality and describes how it comes into…

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/11/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 7.32" wide x 10.24" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

WHITNEY DAVIS, Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, is the author of Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art; Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art; and Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis. He is the editor of Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History.