1st Edition

Interpreting Visual Culture Explorations in the Hermeneutics of Vision

Edited By Ian Heywood, Barry Sandywell Copyright 1999
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, it presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture. Among... Read more
List of illustrations, List of contributors, Introduction: explorations in the hermeneutics of vision, PART I Rethinking the visual in contemporary theory, PART II Rethinking the visual in art: the challenge to contemporary theorizing, PART III Towards an ethics of the visual, Appendix: the original project, Select bibliography, Index

Biography

Ian Heywood, Barry Sandywell