This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year..
This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year..
The artists, philosophers, art historians and cultural theorists contributing to this book address the complexity of interpreting art as research and suggest ways in which the visual and the verbal could engage in more productive and open discussions...
The artists, philosophers, art historians and cultural theorists contributing to this book address the complexity of interpreting art as research and suggest ways in which the visual and the verbal could engage in more productive and open discussions...
Two major monuments of Italian Renaissance culture-Bellini's and Titian's famous series of mytho-poetical "bacchanal" paintings, and Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -are here shown to have been conceived as mnemonic or pedagogical devices aimed at educating the reader/beholder in the m..
Examining painting, photography, illustration, sculpture and architecture from 1770 to 1930, authors explore art that shaped, negotiated, and represented transculturation in the British Empire and in countries under British colonial influences (Congo, Japan, and Turkey). Authors analyze works' cross..
Examining painting, photography, illustration, sculpture and architecture from 1770 to 1930, authors explore art that shaped, negotiated, and represented transculturation in the British Empire and in countries under British colonial influences (Congo, Japan, and Turkey). Authors analyze works' cross..