Visual culture / edited by Chris Jenks. - xi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- The Centrality of the Eye in Western Culture: An Introduction -- Advertising: The Rhetorical Imperative -- Reporting and Visualising -- Fractured Subjectivity -- The City, The Cinema: Modern Spaces -- Fabulous Confusion! Pop Before Pop? -- An Art of Scholars: Corruption, Negation and Particularity in Paintings by Ryman and Richter -- Watching Your Step: The History and Practice of the Flaneur -- Reich Dreams: Ritual Horror and Armoured Bodies -- Television: Not So Much a Visual Medium, More a Visible Object -- Foucault's Optics: The (In) Vision of Mortality and Modernity -- Managing 'Tradition': The Plight of Aesthetic Practices and Their Analysis in a Technoscientific Culture -- Photography and Modern Vision: The Spectacle of 'Natural Magic' -- Three Images of the Visual: Empirical, Formal and Normative -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

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Arts, Modern--20th century
Popular culture.
Visual communication.

NX458. / V57 1995

700.103