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Dealing with the Visual - Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture (Hardcover)
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Dealing with the Visual - Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture (Hardcover)
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One of the issues underlying current debates between practitioners
of art history, visual culture and aesthetics is whether the visual
is a unique, irreducible category, or whether it can be assimilated
with the textual or verbal without any significant loss. 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 appreciation? This is not only a question of choosing the
right method in dealing with visual works of art, but also an issue
that touches on the roots of the disciplines involved: can a case
be made for the visual as an irreducible category of art, and if
so, how is it best studied and appreciated? In this anthology, this
question is approached from the angles of three disciplines:
aesthetics, visual culture and art history. Unlike many existing
overviews of visual culture studies, it includes both painting and
architecture, and investigates historical ways of defining and
appreciating the visual in their own, contemporary terms. Dealing
with the Visual will be of great use to advanced students because
it offers an overview of current debates, and to graduate students
and professionals in the field because the essays offer in-depth
investigations of the methodological issues involved and various
historical ways of defining visuality. The topics included range
from early modern ways of viewing pictures and sixteenth-century
views of Palladio's villas in their landscape settings to
contemporary debate about whether there is life yet in painting.
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