A concise companion to visual culture /
A concise companion to visual culture /
edited by A. Joan Saab, Aubrey Anable, Catherine Zuromskis.
- Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 493 pages) : illustrations.
- Wiley Blackwell companions to cultural studies ; 20 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"We approach visual culture pedagogy through an account of our academic training and work histories as they informed our book Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture in its three very different editions (2001, 2008, 2017). Our experience was unusually broad, spanning art and media practice, cultural studies, critical theory, cultural history, and media activism. With this mixed approach, we helped to introduce a range of images and image-making cultures and technologies, beyond art and film, to the then-nascent visual culture field. In this account, we aim to show how visual culture was, in the 1990s, not just a new direction in art history or a merger between art history and film studies. Rather, the field's emergence was also motivated by political movements and their multimodal forms of practice, as well as by a commitment to recognizing and studying images and imaging technologies at work in a host of institutions and practices beyond fine art, popular media, and art cinema"--
9781119415480 1119415489 9781119415473 1119415470 9781119415442 1119415446
2020024721
Art and society.
Culture.
Visual perception.
Visual communication.
Popular culture.
Communication and culture.
Art and society
Communication and culture
Culture
Popular culture
Visual communication
Visual perception
701/.03
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"We approach visual culture pedagogy through an account of our academic training and work histories as they informed our book Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture in its three very different editions (2001, 2008, 2017). Our experience was unusually broad, spanning art and media practice, cultural studies, critical theory, cultural history, and media activism. With this mixed approach, we helped to introduce a range of images and image-making cultures and technologies, beyond art and film, to the then-nascent visual culture field. In this account, we aim to show how visual culture was, in the 1990s, not just a new direction in art history or a merger between art history and film studies. Rather, the field's emergence was also motivated by political movements and their multimodal forms of practice, as well as by a commitment to recognizing and studying images and imaging technologies at work in a host of institutions and practices beyond fine art, popular media, and art cinema"--
9781119415480 1119415489 9781119415473 1119415470 9781119415442 1119415446
2020024721
Art and society.
Culture.
Visual perception.
Visual communication.
Popular culture.
Communication and culture.
Art and society
Communication and culture
Culture
Popular culture
Visual communication
Visual perception
701/.03