Visual Culture

Visual Culture

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How to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.

The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see—color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels, a photograph of Kim Kardashian West—somehow becomes legible, normalized, accessible. How does this happen? How do we live and move in our visual environments? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture, outlining strategies for thinking about what it means to look and see—and what is at stake in doing so.

Visual culture has always been inscribed by the dominant and by domination. This book suggests how we might weaponize the visual for positive, unifying change. Drawing on both historical and contemporary examples—from Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party and Beyoncé and Jay-Z at the Louvre to the first images of a black hole—Alexis Boylan considers how we engage with and are manipulated by what we see. She begins with what: what is visual culture, and what questions, ideas, and quandaries animate our approach to the visual? She continues with where: where are we allowed to see it, and where do we stand when we look? Then, who: whose bodies have been present or absent from visual culture, and who is allowed to see it? And, finally, when: is the visual detached from time? When do we see what we need to see?

Editore ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press; Edizione standard (11 agosto 2020)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 248 pagine
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262539365
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262539364
Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 306 g
Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.73 x 17.78 cm

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How to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.

The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see—color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels, a photograph of Kim Kardashian West—somehow becomes legible, normalized, accessible. How does this happen? How do we live and move in our visual environments? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture, outlining strategies for thinking about what it means to look and see—and what is at stake in doing so.

Visual culture has always been inscribed by the dominant and by domination. This book suggests how we might weaponize the visual for positive, unifying change. Drawing on both historical and contemporary examples—from Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party and Beyoncé and Jay-Z at the Louvre to the first images of a black hole—Alexis Boylan considers how we engage with and are manipulated by what we see. She begins with what: what is visual culture, and what questions, ideas, and quandaries animate our approach to the visual? She continues with where: where are we allowed to see it, and where do we stand when we look? Then, who: whose bodies have been present or absent from visual culture, and who is allowed to see it? And, finally, when: is the visual detached from time? When do we see what we need to see?

Editore ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press; Edizione standard (11 agosto 2020)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 248 pagine
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262539365
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262539364
Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 306 g
Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.73 x 17.78 cm

4 recensioni per Visual Culture

  1. Katherine Smith –

    This book presents a new and productive perspective on this field. Thank you, Alexis, for such a clear and insightful and expansive text. I will be adopting it as the foundational text for our visual practices concentration.

  2. anônimo –

    uma boa sinopse para o universo da cultura visual.

  3. jose caceres –

    An unnecessary read, full of clichés, that offers nothing new and does not delve into the understanding of visual culture at all.

  4. Jacob Rodriguez –

    Decent book. Don’t love the way it reads in terms of outline. It’s also very small so it’s awkward to hold as well. It was required reading though so I needed to buy it.

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