Approaches To Understanding Visual Culture (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "Most, if not all, of the books recently published on visual culture presuppose that understanding is possible and that they know what it is..." (more)
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'Its discussion of the range of major theoretical approaches earns Malcolm Barnard's Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture a place on the theory shelf beside Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory, a similarly-sized guidebook of much help for the perplexed.' - Leonardo --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"What is it that happens when we understand something?" Malcolm Barnard relates the understanding of visual culture to the traditions of natural and social science and applies the theme of scientific understanding to the principal approaches to understanding art and design. Formalist, Marxist, gender-based, semiological, hermeneutic, and expressionist approaches to visual culture are clearly explained, through a wide variety of examples from fashion, architecture, film, fine art, and comics.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 226 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (July 6, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0333772873
• ISBN-13: 978-0333772874
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
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