Visual Worlds (Hardcover)

As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the emergence of new tools and conventions. Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume contains a collection of essays by internationally renowned artists and scholars from a variety of fields (including art history, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, film and television studies, intellectual history and sociology). It was conceived to address a bold query: how is our experience and understanding of vision and visual form changing under pressure from the various social, economic and cultural factors that are linked under the term globalization.
The essays overlap in their considerations of the tensions between cultures and worlds, political life, everyday social experience, and war. The resulting conversation that develops between the chapters touches on points from many visual worlds, and provides a unique opportunityfor considering the changing character of visual experience today.
This book will attract readers from a wide range of academic disciplines and will especially be valuable as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in visual culture and cultural studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	International Library of Sociology
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	March 2006
Editors:	John R. Hall • Blake Stimson • Lisa Tamiris Becker
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	268
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-36212-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-36212-1
Barcode:	9780415362122

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