Visual Culture: The Reader

by Jessica Evans (editor), Stuart Hall (Editor)

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 issues of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at center stage.

Genres: Nonfiction, Academic

512 pages, Hardcover

First published July 6, 1999

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Reviews

[Nina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good selection of relevant texts and key authors on visual culture. The section introductions by the editors did not give me much to be honest, so I focused mostly on the texts themselves. There are some sloppy mistakes in the book when it comes to details and references, also most notably a mistake in reproducing the correct images in Rosalind Krauss article which means you have to look for the original text or other reproductions of the images to understand the point.

[Jan · Rating 3 out of 5]

easy references

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource for information on contemporary criticism.