Visual Culture
$38.78
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2020
Summary
Ways of Seeing: A 21st-Century Guide to Visual Culture
As if John Berger’s Ways of Seeing was re-written for the 21st century, Alexis L. Boylan crafts a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture in this concise introduction. How to think about what it means to look and see—a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see—color, the moon,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539364 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262539365 |
| Series: | The MIT Press Essential Knowledge |
| Author: | Alexis L. Boylan |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm |
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Critics Review
Boylan’s work is provocative: she pushes readers to step outside of the routine passive reception to images everywhere and asks for consideration of the impact of these thousands of images on our psyches and our sense of our place in the world.—PopMatters
About The Author
Alexis L. Boylan
Alexis L. Boylan is Associate Professor in the Art and Art History Department and the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man.
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