A General Theory of Visual Culture (eBook)

Whitney Davis (Autor)

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2022
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3643-7 (ISBN)

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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 Culture argues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifacts and pictures have been made to be seen in a certain way; what Davis calls "e;visuality"e; 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 being as a historical form of vision. Expansive in scope, A General Theory of Visual Culture draws on art history, aesthetics, the psychology of perception, the philosophy of reference, and vision science, as well as visual-cultural studies in history, sociology, and anthropology. It provides penetrating new definitions of form, style, and iconography, and draws important and sometimes surprising conclusions (for example, that vision does not always attain to visual culture, and that visual culture is not always wholly visible). The book uses examples from a variety of cultural traditions, from prehistory to the twentieth century, to support a theory designed to apply to all human traditions of making artifacts and pictures--that is, to visual culture as a worldwide phenomenon.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 171 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Acting • Adapt • Aestheticism • Aesthetics • aesthetic theory • Allegory • Analogy • anthropology of art • Art criticism • art exhibition • Art for art's sake • Art History • art of memory • awareness • Causality • Causal Theory of Reference • cognitive anthropology • Cognitive module • color scheme • Comparative Research • Concept • Conceptualization (information science) • Conflation • Connoisseur • connotation • Consciousness • contextualism • Courtauld Institute of Art • cultural artifact • Cultural History • cultural icon • Culturalism • Culture Theory • depiction • diagram • Dissemination • Emergence • engraving • Essay • Explanation • Exposition (narrative) • Feminist Art • figurative art • Fine Art • Formalism (art) • formality • Form of life (philosophy) • Handbook • Historical Method • Historicism • Human figure (aesthetics) • iconicity • Iconography • Iconology • idealism • Ideation (creative process) • Ideology • Illustration • Illustrator • imagism • Individuation • intentionality • interaction • Invention • language • Language-game (philosophy) • Languages of Art • Level of Analysis • Level of consciousness (Esotericism) • Mental image • Mental representation • Metaphor • Metaphysics • modern art • Museum • narrative • Nominalism • Notation • obfuscation • Objectivity (philosophy) • Ontology • Ostensive definition • perception • performativity • Perspective (graphical) • Pictorialism • Pigment • Platitude • Pop Art • Positivism • Pragmatics • precognition • printing • Publication • Reflections on Language • Reflexology • school of thought • self-concept • self-consciousness • Semiotics • Sense and reference • Social Theory • Sociocultural evolution • Sociology of Culture • Solipsism • Sophistication • State of affairs (philosophy) • Subjectivism • Subjectivity • Suggestion • Symbol • Symptom • Theoretical definition • theory • Theory Of Art • Theory of Forms • Thought • Thought experiment • transference • truism • typography • Vision Science • visual arts • Visual Culture • Visual Field • visual inspection • visual perception • Visual semiotics • work of art • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3643-3 / 1400836433
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3643-7 / 9781400836437