Exploring Visual Culture: Definitions, Concepts, Contexts
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Visual Culture and the Meanings of Culture -- 2. Definitions of Art and the Art World -- 3. Concepts of Craft -- 4. Design and Modern Culture -- 5. Fashion: Style, Identity and Meaning -- 6. Photography and Film -- 7. Architecture and Visual Culture -- 8. Representation and the Idea of Realism -- 9. Visual Rhetoric -- 10. The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Author -- 11. The Ideology of the Visual -- 12. Visual Practices in the Age of Industry -- 13. Technical Reproduction and its Significance -- 14. From Mass Media to Cyberculture -- 15. Visual Culture and its Institutions -- Index