TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hall,John R.
AU  - Stimson,Blake
AU  - Becker,Lisa Tamiris
TI  - Visual worlds
T2  - International library of sociology
SN  - 0415362121
AV  - HM500 .V56 2005
U1  - 301 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Visual sociology
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - United States
KW  - Visual perception
KW  - Arts and society
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : visual cultures and visual worlds; Blake Stimson --; 1; Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation; Lauren Berlant --; 2; Televisual popular politics : Diana and democracy; Jon Simons --; 3; Manufacturing dissent : challenges for activism and alternative voices in the post-9/11 world; M. Kauffmann and L. Stanley --; 4; Art at the intersection of social fields; Andrea Fraser --; 5; Heart of darkness : a journey into the dark matter of the art world; Gregory Sholette --; 6; Primetime art as seen on Melrose Place; The Gala Committee --; 7; Electronic habitus : agit-prop in an imaginary world; Jennifer Gonzalez --; 8; Los Angeles as visual world : media, seeing, and the city; Darnell M. Hunt --; 9; Photography's decline into modernism : in praise of "bad" photographs; Marshall Battani --; 10; Between the net and the deep blue sea (rethinking the traffic in photographs); Allan Sekula --; 11; Witness to surrender; Robin Wagner-Pacifici --; 12; Under siege : Mona Hatoum's art of displacement; Anneke Voorhees --; 13; Mea Culpa : on residual culture and the turn to ethics; Mary Kelly --; Epilogue : visual worlds, after 9/11; Martin Jay
N2  - "Visual Worlds was conceived to address a bold query: how, it asks, are our experience and understanding of vision and visual form changing under pressure from the various social, economic and cultural factors that are linked under the term globalization? To consider this question, the volume gathers together a diverse group of internationally renowned artists and scholars from a variety of fields including art history, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, film and television studies, intellectual history and sociology. At issue for each author is what Lauren Berlant, in the volume's first essay, calls "dense and radiant images of the politically saturated" world that are "employed as vehicles for shaping a collective sense of social belonging." The other essays overlap in their considerations of the tensions between cultures and worlds, political life and everyday social experience, peace and war. The conversation that develops between the voices represented here touches down on points arrayed across many visual worlds and provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -