Visual Culture

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
THE CENTRALITY OF THE EYE IN WESTERN CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION......Page 14
ADVERTISING: THE RHETORICAL IMPERATIVE......Page 39
REPORTING AND VISUALISING......Page 55
FRACTURED SUBJECTIVITY......Page 71
THE CITY, THE CINEMA: MODERN SPACES......Page 90
FABULOUS CONFUSION! POP BEFORE POP?......Page 109
AN ART OF SCHOLARS: CORRUPTION, NEGATION AND PARTICULARITY IN PAINTINGS BY RYMAN AND RICHTER......Page 136
WATCHING YOUR STEP: THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF THE FLNEUR......Page 155
REICH DREAMS: RITUAL HORROR AND ARMOURED BODIES......Page 174
TELEVISION: NOT SO MUCH A VISUAL MEDIUM, MORE A VISIBLE OBJECT......Page 183
FOUCAULT'S OPTICS: THE (IN) VISION OF MORTALITY AND MODERNITY......Page 203
MANAGING 'TRADITION': THE PLIGHT OF AESTHETIC PRACTICES AND THEIR ANALYSIS IN A TECHNOSCIENTIFIC CULTURE......Page 215
PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODERN VISION: THE SPECTACLE OF 'NATURAL MAGIC'......Page 231
THREE IMAGES OF THE VISUAL: EMPIRICAL, FORMAL AND NORMATIVE......Page 251
Index......Page 273