Exploring Visual Culture : : Definitions, Concepts, Contexts / / Matthew Rampley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Rampley, Matthew,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Fiona,; Davis, Glyn,; MacDonald, Juliette,; Mulholland, Neil,; Pelzer, Ruth,; Rampley, Matthew,; Williams, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; List of Figures --; Contributors --; Introduction --; 1. Visual Culture and the Meanings of Culture --; 2. Definitions of Art and the Art World --; 3. Concepts of Craft --; 4. Design and Modern Culture --; 5. Fashion: Style, Identity and Meaning --; 6. Photography and Film --; 7. Architecture and Visual Culture --; 8. Representation and the Idea of Realism --; 9. Visual Rhetoric --; 10. The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Author --; 11. The Ideology of the Visual --; 12. Visual Practices in the Age of Industry --; 13. Technical Reproduction and its Significance --; 14. From Mass Media to Cyberculture --; 15. Visual Culture and its Institutions --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474471879; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474471879
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Matthew Rampley.

An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of 'visual culture' that includes not only images, but also other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to fashion, design and the human body. The book is organised around three broad themes, exploring key ideas and debates that have occurred during the last 20 or so years:the meanings of the term 'visual culture' and of the various practices that form its basis conceptual approaches to the contemporary analysis of visual culture the cultural, social and historical contexts informing its production, distribution and consumptionDrawing on a wide range of examples from the last 100 years, the book adopts a cross-disciplinary perspective; it also explores, however, the limits of visual culture as an interdisciplinary field of study, engaging in current debates about the uses and value of the study of visual culture. It will therefore be of value both for readers new to the subject and also for those seeking fresh interventions into contemporary discussions within the field.Key FeaturesAccessibly written by a team of experts in the field Illustrated throughout Includes chapters on a wide range of visual forms, including architecture and urban design, film, crafts, fashion, design, fine art and the media.