Visuality and Virtuality: Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective

by Whitney Davis

A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images

This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis's acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691171947
• ISBN13: 9780691171944
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 10.3"