Visual Studies is a phrase much bandied about and ballyhooed by artists and art historians, as well as those engaged in a variety of intellectual and technical pursuits--from film and television to the Internet and medical imaging. But what is visual culture? What is its theory and method? Visual Studies is a welcome text that rehearses the fundamental concepts driving this vibrant field of inquiry since its noisy emergence on to the academic scene. Tracing the history of visual studies, its disciplinary (or not) parameters, and outlining its relationship to traditionally important concepts---aesthetics, ideology, and performativity--Visual Studies dramatizes for students the stakes involved in any and all enterprises visual.
- ISBN10 1405117761
- ISBN13 9781405117760
- Publish Date 30 March 2005
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 30 January 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English