| Description |
xi, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. What is Visual Culture? -- 2. How May It Be Studied? -- 3. Producers: Artists and Designers -- 4. Consumers: Markets, Publics and Audiences -- 5. Media, Access and Ownership -- 6. Signs, Codes and Visual Culture -- 7. Different Types of Art and Design -- 8. Visual Culture and the Social Process -- 9. Conclusion |
| Summary |
Why do we have the visual experiences we have? Why do the buildings, cars, products and advertisements we see look the way they do? How are we to explain the existence of different styles of paintings, different types of cars and different genres of film? How are we to explain the existence of different visual cultures? This book begins to answer these questions by explaining visual experience in terms of visual culture. The strengths and weaknesses of traditional means of analysing and explaining visual culture are examined and assessed. Using a wide range of historical and contemporary examples, it is argued that the groups which artists and designers form, the audiences and markets which they sell to, and the different social classes which are produced and reproduced by art and design, are all part of the successful explanation and critical evaluation of visual culture |
| Notes |
"Palgrave Macmillan" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
Studies in the fine arts. Art patronage. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83722319
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| Subject |
Art and society.
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Art patronage.
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Artists -- Psychology.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Visual communication.
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| LC no. |
98021474 |
| ISBN |
0312216912 (U.S.) |
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0312216920 (U.S. pbk.) |
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0333675258 |
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0333675266 (paperback) |
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