Visual Culture

by Chris Jenks

Book Overview

In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision and truth. A major preoccupation of modernity and central to an understadning of the postmodern, 'vision' and the 'visual' are emergent themes across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415106230
• ISBN13: 9780415106238
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary