Art, Design and Visual Culture: An Introduction

by Malcolm Barnard

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 read

Genres: Art

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Malcolm Barnard is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Loughborough University and an internationally recognized theorist of visual culture. He has degrees in philosophy and in sociology and his PhD concerned Derrida and other French philosophers.

Reviews

[Nour Ibrahim · Rating 5 out of 5]

THIS WAS REALLY GOOD. It was truly insightful and I love how well structured and balanced everything was explained. Arguments of all sides were presented and the fact that the author gave a conclusion by the end of every chapter and a conclusion for the book itself (which you really need cuz by the end you'll find yourself slightly overwhelmed with details) gave a really clear, clean idea of what each of the things mentioned in the title are and how to approach them and what not. Lastly, it really excited me to get to know more about visual culture and I can't say that I'm not intrigued in perhaps pursuing this topic academically 😉