Exploring visual culture : definitions, concepts, contexts / edited by Matthew Rampley. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2005. - xiii, 257 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliography and index.

Visual culture and the meanings of culture / Matthew Rampley -- Definitions of art and the art world / Neil Mulholland -- Concepts of craft ; Design and modern culture / Juliette MacDonald -- Fashion : style, identity and meaning / Fiona Anderson -- Photography and film / Glyn Davis -- Architecture and visual culture / Richard Williams -- Representation and the idea of realism / Neil Mulholland -- Visual rhetoric ; The rise and fall of the author / Matthew Rampley -- The ideology of the visual / Glyn Davis -- Visual practices in the age of industry / Matthew Rampley -- Technical reproduction and its significance / Ruth Pelzer -- From mass media to cyberculture / Glyn Davis -- Visual culture and its institutions / Fiona Anderson.

0748618457 (pbk.) 9780748618453 (pbk.)


Arts and society.
Culture in art.
Visual communication in art.
Visual communication--Social aspects.
Visual communication.

700.103 RAM