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Visual Culture Reader
This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Visual Culture Reader brings together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles covering a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture.
The Reader features an introductory section tracing the development of visual cultur...more
The Reader features an introductory section tracing the development of visual cultur...more
Paperback, 776 pages
Published
December 27th 2002
by Routledge
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Terrific collection of essays I had to read for my Master's course work. I still have it to this day and often find myself referencing many of the essays. This really is a must read for anyone serious about deconstruction of visual culture or for anyone who wants to be able to appreciate it more.
May 01, 2009
Vanessa
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i really want to get through this book. technically i've been 'currently reading' this for about 5 years. it's the first essay that makes my brain spin. but it's by the editor and i feel like i owe it to him to finish it! once i get through that one, i think the other essays will be much more manageable.
Jul 02, 2007
Bridget
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Recommends it for:
artists, visual culture, cultural studies
this book was a fabulous way to be exposed to some critical original source material for those studying visual culture. It isn't coming at the visual from an art perspective, but a theoretical perspective, and it's not just fine art. Very informative and a must read.
the best "reader" on visual culture i've ever read, and i've read many. Althusser, Barthes, Baudrillard, Butler, Dubois, Fanon, GUY DEBORD (!!!), Descarte, Foucault, Haraway, Shohat(!!!), Halberstam, and the list goes on and on. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A collection of some great essential essays... but in many ways, despite the editor's intent, such a book really extinguishes Visual Culture's radical potential by virtue of making it a canon of sorts.
Apr 18, 2007
maile
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
conceptual artists and their patrons
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visualculture
This book rules, if you are into conceptual art at all or you're interested in how contemporary theories of art are influencing cultural studies, read this bitch!
Anthologies are best left unrated, particularly cultural theory tomes such as this. Useful, yes but what you use will depend entirely on you.
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