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Visual Culture: The Reader (Published in association with The Open University) [Paperback]

Jessica Evans (Editor), Stuart Hall (Editor)
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Publication Date: 19 May 1999 | ISBN-10: 0761962484 | ISBN-13: 978-0761962489
`This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its major strength is its insistence on the importance of three central aspects of the study of visual culture: the sign, the institution and the viewing subject. It will provide readers, teachers and students with an essential text in visual and cultural studies' - Janet Wolff, University of Rochester

Visual Culture provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines, including four editorial essays which place the readings in their historical and theoretical context. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this Reader puts the study of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at centre stage.

Divided into three parts: Cultures of the Visual; Regulating Photographic Meaning; and Looking and Subjectivity, the Reader enables students to make hitherto unmade connections between art, film and photography history and theory, history, semiotics and communications, media studies, and cultural theory.

Visual Culture sets the agenda for the study of Visual Culture and will be essential reading for researchers and students alike.

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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd (19 May 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0761962484
  • ISBN-13: 978-0761962489
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 2.5 x 24.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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`Visual Culture offers readers incredible riches. It contains a number of important articles on theoretical matters involving the analysis and interpretation of images and their culture, social and political dimensions. As such, it is a major contribution to our understanding of visual culture' - Journal of Communication

"This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its major strength is its insistence on the importance of three central aspects of the study of visual culture: the sign, the institution and the viewing subject. It will provide readers, teachers and students with essential text in visual and cultural studies." 

(Janet Wolff)

About the Author

Stuart Hall was born and raised in Jamaica and arrived in Britain on a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford in 1950. In 1958, he left his PhD on Henry James to found the New Left Review, which did much to open a debate about immigration and the politics of identity. Along with Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart he established the first Cultural Studies programme at a British university in Birmingham in 1964, bringing the study of popular culture into the understanding of political and social change.

After spending more than four decades as one of the UK’s leading public intellectuals, Hall retired from formal academic life in 1997 and since then has continued to devote himself to questions of representation, creativity and difference. He became the chair of two foundations, Iniva, the Institute of International Visual Arts, and Autograph ABP, which seeks to promote photographers from culturally diverse backgrounds, and championed the opening of Iniva’s new Rivington Place arts complex in east London in 2007.

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4.0 out of 5 stars the text book on visual culture 7 July 2010
By Ru_Anderson
Format:Paperback
If you want an academic basis to compliment your enjoyment of art, photography, cinema or visual culture then this is no bad place to start.

It seeds dozens of ideas and concepts and gives more than enough information to allow you to explore further areas that take your interest.

To sit down and read it you would need to be pretty dedicated, however as a reference for those with a passing interest or as some thing to dip into and read bits that interest you, its a solid purchase. There are extensive quoted passages and as a result the language is often that complex, over textured and, dare I say it dry stuff of arts accademia. But if you need an introduction to this "arts speak" and the often self referential manner in which photography is discussed as a "social medium" then this book makes a fair attempt at providing a key to the conversations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable source material 11 Mar 2010
By J. S. Matthews
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I bought the book as recommended on the reading list for my course BA(Hons) Fine Art. I have used this book more than any other during the course and it has been the primary source for critical studies and my dissertation on photographic theory. It's very heavy reading as the language used was unfamiliar to me. However with determination and a dictionary it has definitely helped me extend my understanding and practice. Highly recommended as essential reading for any student whose medium is photography or film.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great selection of essays dealing with visual culture 20 Sep 2000
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this selection of essays offer a wide understanding of all the arenas in which visual analysis can take place. it has an introduction about what is visual culture and essays from academics such as j. clifford, m. de certeau, g. pollock, etc. it is a review on the history of visuality and the implications of visual culture in the arenas of the representation of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc. You wont regret buying this book if you are interested in the study of visual culture.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nie compendium 12 Jan 2009
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This is a nice compendium of selected texts by some of the most well known thinkers and researchers of visual culture in the field, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes are some of the names. It brings selections of the different author's work in the field. It is organized chronologically.
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