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Visual Culture Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.94 — 450,694 ratings — published 1972
Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.78 — 631 ratings — published 2001
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,768 ratings — published 1980
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,239 ratings — published 1967
The Visual Culture Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.05 — 147 ratings — published 1998
An Introduction to Visual Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.92 — 167 ratings — published 1999
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.87 — 287 ratings — published 2001
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,921 ratings — published 1967
Visual Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.89 — 95 ratings — published 2003
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.90 — 333 ratings — published 2005
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,142 ratings — published 1936
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.89 — 244 ratings — published 1994
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,850 ratings — published 1973
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,560 ratings — published 1957
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,276 ratings — published 1964
How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.72 — 833 ratings — published 2015
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 632 ratings — published 2012
Visual Culture: The Reader (Published in association with The Open University)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.87 — 63 ratings — published 1999
The Language of New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,065 ratings — published 2001
Vision and visuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.98 — 81 ratings — published 1988
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,498 ratings — published 1980
Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 (Cultural Studies Birmingham)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.80 — 69 ratings — published 1980
Black Looks: Race and Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,509 ratings — published 1992
The Civil Contract of Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.18 — 110 ratings — published 2008
How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.75 — 140 ratings — published 2012
Primer of Visual Literacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.80 — 853 ratings — published 1973
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.09 — 550 ratings — published 1990
Feminist Visual Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.43 — 14 ratings — published
Photography and Anthropology (Exposures)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.94 — 33 ratings — published 2011
The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.32 — 75 ratings — published 2011
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,286 ratings — published 1983
Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.37 — 52 ratings — published
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,067 ratings — published 1993
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,041 ratings — published 1949
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,312 ratings — published 1981
Visual And Other Pleasures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.07 — 488 ratings — published 1989
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,829 ratings — published 1977
Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.06 — 754 ratings — published 1997
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,085 ratings — published 1991
Listening to Images (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.34 — 233 ratings — published
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.98 — 176 ratings — published 1986
Chinese Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.25 — 59 ratings — published 1960
The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.77 — 220 ratings — published 1996
Isotype: Design and Contexts 1925 1971 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.60 — 10 ratings — published 2014
Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.59 — 220 ratings — published 1995
Unflattening (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,828 ratings — published 2015
The Future of the Image (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 565 ratings — published 2003
Portraits: John Berger on Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.32 — 713 ratings — published 2015
Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practice in the Middle East and North Africa (Ibraaz Series)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.38 — 8 ratings — published 2014
“Language could be used as an instrument of control, a way of establishing hierarchies that suggest one set of people is better or more special than another. Through language, one automatically identifies one's place within a social and cultural hierarchy and we all carry with us illogical attitudes about the bearers of particular language, based on our own cultural background and continued exposure to local political ideals.”
― Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Words to Pictures
― Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Words to Pictures
“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature – form a family of related, if largely autonomous, practices: they all work through the aesthetic, all address the imagination, and all are concerned with the symbolic embodiment of human meaning.”
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