Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture by Barnard, Malcolm

Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780333772881)

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Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture by Barnard, Malcolm

Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture

$52.95
Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture by Barnard, Malcolm

Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture

$52.95
Format: Paperback
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This text provides an accessible critical introduction to a variety of different analytic strategies for understanding the range of objects (paintings, sculpture, adverts, furniture, textiles, photography, fashion, etc.) that make up visual culture. Beginning with a discussion of what understanding can be taken to mean in relation to visual culture, it devotes separate chapters to different approaches to its study, using carefully chosen examples to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of these. The major figures associated with particular analytic strategies (Hebdige, Panofsky, Barthes, Wolff, etc.) are critically discussed throughout. Alternative, more advanced readings are also explored and crucial questions posed, such as 'Are we always, or ever, in control of our understanding?'

Author: Malcolm Barnard
ISBN-10: 0333772881
ISBN-13: 9780333772881
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2000
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.90w x 0.51d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 121
By Malcolm Barnard
By Malcolm Barnard
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MALCOLM BARNARD is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at the University of Derby, where he teaches the history and theory of art and design. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Sociology and a PhD in Philosophy from the universities of York and Warwick, and his publications include Fashion as Communication and Art, Design and Visual Culture: An Introduction.
MALCOLM BARNARD is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at the University of Derby, where he teaches the history and theory of art and design. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Sociology and a PhD in Philosophy from the universities of York and Warwick, and his publications include Fashion as Communication and Art, Design and Visual Culture: An Introduction.

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