1st Edition
American Icons The Genesis of a National Visual Language
By Benedikt Feldges
Copyright 2008
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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Despite the work that has been done on the power of visual communication in general, and about the social influence of television in particular, television’s relationship with reality is still something of a black box. Even today, the convention that the screen functions as a window on reality structures much of the production and reception of televisual narratives. But as reality ought to become... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part A: Icons in the Museum
Part B: Kaleidoscopic Spectacles
Part C: Hyperrealism
Appendix
Glossary: Four Codes of Visual Language
Notes
Listing of Sources
Bibliography
Biography
Benedikt Feldges currently works at the FEBL, Institute of Continuous Education, Kanton Baselland, in Switzerland.
"Feldges argues that historians must abandon the idea that pictures can be used to construct a history of what they seem to depict, embracing instead a study of visual "etymology" – that is, tracing a path of how images came to be encoded with commonly understood meanings.... the book offers both a theoretical framework for a more complex understanding of visual language, as well as a glimpse of what visual language looked like when broadcast still ruled the day." --Jason Tocci, International Journal of Communication
