1st Edition

The Aesthetics of Image and Cultural Form The Formal Method

By Yi Chen Copyright 2024
138 Pages 10 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 10 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 10 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to situate analysis of Image within ‘formal’ analyses of culture experience. Specifically, the discussion draws on theories of affective aesthetics with the view of addressing the sensual form of culture (i.e. ‘cultural form’). Therefore, the volume puts forward a mode of formalist... Read more

Introduction   The Lively Form of ‘Image’ 

Chapter 1       Towards a Theory of ‘Image’ and ‘Cultural Form’ 

Chapter 2       An Environmental Definition of Image 

Chapter 3       ‘Image’ as The Sensual Form of Mass Media 

Chapter 4       ‘The Prolific Image Makers of Our Times’ 

Conclusion:    The ‘Aesthetic Regime’ of Visual Cultural Analysis 

Bibliography

Index 

Biography

Yi Chen is a Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies at University of the Arts London.