Visual Culture: The Reader

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

"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 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 RochesterVisual The Reader provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this reader puts issues of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at centre stage.



Divided into three parts, The Culture of the Visual, Regulating Photographic Meaning, Looking and Subjectivity, this reader enables students to make hitherto unmade connections across art, film and photography history and theory, semiotics, history, semiotics and communications, media studies, and cultural theory. The key statements are from the work

Visual The Reader sets the agenda for the study of Visual Culture and will be an essential sourcebook for researchers and students alike.

sets the agenda for the study of Visual Culture and will be an essential sourcebook for researchers and students alike.This is the reader for the module The Image and Visual Culture (D850) - part of The Open University Masters in Social Sciences Programme. 

Genres: Academic, Nonfiction

512 pages, Paperback

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.