Art, Design and Visual Culture: An Introduction - Rilegato

Barnard, Malcolm

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ISBN 10: 0312216912 ISBN 13: 9780312216917

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Riassunto

This fascinating examination of visual experience offers an explanation and assessment of the traditional means of analyzing visual culture. Most of our experience is visual--we obtain most of our information and knowledge through sight, whether from reading books and newspapers, from watching television, or from quickly glimpsing road signs. Many of our judgments and decisions, as well as our entertainment and recreation, are based on the visual experience. Using a wide range of historical and contemporary examples, this book argues that the groups which artists and designers form, the audiences and markets which they sell to, and the different social classes which are produced and reproduced by art and design are all part of the successful explanation and critical evaluation of visual culture.

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L'autore:

Malcolm Barnard is Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Art and Design at the University of Derby.

Product Description:

Why do we have the visual experiences we have? Why do the buildings, cars, products and advertisements we see look the way they do? How are we to explain the existence of different styles of paintings, different types of cars and different genres of film? How are we to explain the existence of different visual cultures? This book begins to answer these questions by explaining visual experience in terms of visual culture. The strengths and weaknesses of traditional means of analysing and explaining visual culture are examined and assessed. Using a wide range of historical and contemporary examples, it is argued that the groups which artists and designers form, the audiences and markets which they sell to, and the different social classes which are produced and reproduced by art and design, are all part of the successful explanation and critical evaluation of visual culture.

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312216912
• ISBN 13: 9780312216917
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 214