Chaplin, Elizabeth, 1939-

Sociology and visual representation / Elizabeth Chaplin. - xii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-294) and index.

List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Critical writing about visual art -- Introduction and early writings -- Critical writings about visual art: class analyses I -- Non-critical writings about visual art: connoisseurship, humanism -- Critical writings about visual art: class analyses II -- From written, class analyses of visual art to the use of visual representation in critique -- Visual and verbal critique: feminism and postmodernism -- Sociological analyses of visual representation -- The use of visual representation in anthropology and sociology -- Visual representation and new literary forms for sociology -- A coming together -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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Art and society--History--20th century
Visual communication.

N72.S6 / C34 1994

306.47