Visual culture / edited by Chris Jenks

Contributor(s):

Jenks, Chris [ed.]

Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995Edition: 1rst edDescription: xi, 269 pISBN:

0415106230

Abstract: La visió i el visual són temes emergents relatius a la sociologia, els estudis culturals i la teoria crítica en les arts plàstiques, constituint una de les majors preocupacions de la modernitat, que esdevé central a l'hora d'entendre el postmodernisme. En aquest text, es presenten catorze articles temàtics que exploren el caràcter plàstic de la cultura contemporània. Els autors analitzen la publicitat, les pel.lícules, la pintura, les belles arts, el periodisme, la fotografia, la televisió i la propaganda. Afirmen que només existeix una relació social, i no formal, entre la visió i la veritat. Podríem dir que està intimament vinculada a les formes que ha desenvolupat la nostra societat, a través del temps, per ordenar el coneixement, les estratègies de poder i els sistemes de desig.Abstract: La visión y lo visual son temas emergentes relativos a la sociología, los estudios culturales y la teoría crítica en las artes plásticas, constituyendo una de las preocupaciones de la modernidad que adquiere carácter central en la comprensión del postmodernismo. En este texto se presentan catorce artículos temáticos que exploran el carácter plástico de la cultura contemporanea. Los autores analizan la publicidad, las películas, la pintura, las bellas artes, el periodismo, la fotografía, la televisión y la propaganda. Afirman que sólo existe una relación social, y no formal, entre la visión y la verdad. Ésta parece íntimamente vinculada a las maneras que ha desarrollado nuestra sociedad a través del tiempo para ordenar sus formas de conocimiento, sus estrategias de poder y sus sistemas de deseo.Summary: Visual Culture is a collection of original and critical essays addressing 'vision' as a social and cultural process. The book exposes the organised but implicit structuring of a highly significant yet utterly routine dimension of social relations, the 'seen'. What we see, and the manner in which we come to see it, is not simply part of a natural ability. It is rather intimately linked with the ways that our society has, over time, arranged its forms of knowledge, its strategies of power and its systems of desire. We can no longer be assured that what we see is what we should believe in. There is only a social not a formal relation between vision and truth. The necessity, centrality and universality of vision has been a major preoccupation of modernity; and the fracture and refraction of vision are central to an understanding of the postmodern. Consequently, the role of visual depiction, the practices of visual production and reproduction, and the socialisation, history and conventions of visual perception are emergent themes for sociology, cultural studies and critical theory in the visual arts. The contributors all stem from these three traditions and all represent the vanguard of new research in their areas. Though their perspectives vary, they share a central problematic, the 'visual' character of contemporary culture. Their approach is through a wide spectrum of representational formations, ranging through advertising, film, painting and fine art, journalism, photography, television and propaganda. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 01231	1	Available		1900170718

List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The centrality of the eye in Western culture: An introduction / Chris Jenks -- 2. Advertising: The rhetorical imperative / Malcolm Barnard -- 3. Reporting and visualising / Andrew Barry -- 4. Fractured subjectivity / Roy Boyne -- 5. The city, the cinema: Modern spaces / James Donald -- 6. Fabulous confusion! Pop before pop? / Dick Hebdige -- 7. An art of scholars: Corruption, negation and particularity in paintings by Ryman and Richter / Ian Heywood -- 8. Watching your step: The history and practice of the flâneur / Chris Jenks -- 9. Reich dreams: Ritual horror and armoured bodies / Justin J. Lorentzen -- 10. Television: Not so much a visual medium, more a visible object / David Morley -- 11. Foucault's optics: The (in) vision of mortality and modernity / John O'Neill -- 12. Managing 'tradition': The plight of aesthetic practices and their analysis in a technoscientific culture / Michael Phillipson -- 13. Photography and modern vision: The spectacle of 'natural magic' / Don Slater -- 14. Three images of the visual: Empirical, formal and normative / John A. Smith -- Index

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