Visual Worlds (International Library of Sociology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415362121 ISBN 13: 9780415362122

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the emergence of new tools and conventions. Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume contains a collection of essays by 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). It was conceived to address a bold query: how is 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'.

The essays overlap in their considerations of the tensions between cultures and worlds, political life, everyday social experience, and war. The resulting conversation that develops between the chapters touches on points from many visual worlds, and provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today.

This book will attract readers from a wide range of academic disciplines and will especially be valuable as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in visual culture and cultural studies.

About this title

About the Author

John R. Hall is Professor of Sociology at the University of California - Davis and Visiting Professor at the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh.

Blake Stimson is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis.

Lisa Tamiris Becker is Director of the CU Art Museum and the Colorado Collection, Colorado, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415362121
• ISBN 13: 9780415362122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Hall John R, Stimson Blake, Becker Lisa Tamiris