Visual Culture, Paperback

From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the c...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elisabeth BronfenIllustration(s): 59 bw illusNumber of pages: 432Collection: New Encounters: Arts, C...

This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicat...

In Terra Infirma, Irit Rogoff examines geography's truth claims and signifying practices, arguing that geography is a language in crisis, unable to...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 250Collection: Culture & Theory (COL)Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 149 x 224 x 25Cover type: Paper...

An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide-ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Mapping a ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender....

Publisher: Ugly Duckling PresseNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 172 x 242 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Yevge...

Can paintings, buildings or installations be 'read' in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own kind of ap...

Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such use become esta...

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums.

DescriptionIslamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primarysources in translation accompanied by clear and conciseintroductory essays that...

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Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, ...

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Suitable for students of art history as well as those seeking an understanding of art and of the cultural and historical context in which it is mad...

This book explores how the comparative analysis of visual cultural artefacts, from objects to architecture and fiction films, can contribute to our...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Lisa GottoNumber of pages: 268Collection: Digital SocietyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 20Cov...

A thoroughly revised and updated 3rd edition, highlighting the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. Contains 47 essays by...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Lyneise E. (Associate Professor of Art History, UNC Chapel Hill, USA) WilliamsIllustration(s): 9...

Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media and Culture provides a theoretical and empirical toolkit to examine implications of mediated im...

This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in foster...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Matthias (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands) SmalbruggeNumber of pages: 184Col...

DescriptionA century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design ...

The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as e...

Image Science gathers Mitchell's most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topic...

A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced a...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Cristina Mejia VisperasIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 20...

Kelli Moore traces the political origins of the concept of domestic violence through visual culture in the United States, showing how it is rooted ...

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Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Marianne HirschIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 57, Number of pages: 320Collection: Gender and Culture S...

This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and soci...

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproductio...

Visual art has been tied to hip-hop culture since its emergence in the 1970s. Commentary on these initial connections often emphasizes the importan...

The devastation of disease, the pace of death and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous he...

Reducere. Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in t...

Publisher: Atelier EditionsAuthor(s): Annebella PollenNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 173 x 23Cover type: Paperback / s...

DescriptionLife in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented. Challenging the stereotypes and my...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Rachel Afi QuinnIllustration(s): 28 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 264Publication date...

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates...

Reducere. Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, ...