ABSTRACT

Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, it presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture.
Among topics covered are:
* the visual rhetoric of modernity
* the drawings of Bonnard
* recent feminist art
* practices and perception in arts and ethics.

part |2 pages

Part I RETHINKING THE VISUAL IN CONTEMPORARY THEORY

chapter 1|28 pages

THE HERMENEUTICS OF SEEING

chapter 2|28 pages

SPECULAR GRAMMAR

chapter 4|22 pages

DURKHEIM’S DOUBLE VISION

part |2 pages

Part II RETHINKING THE VISUAL IN ART

chapter 5|24 pages

READERS OF THE LOST ART

chapter 6|20 pages

SEEING BECOMING DRAWING

chapter 7|20 pages

THE ‘REAL REALM’

part |2 pages

Part III TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF THE VISUAL

chapter 10|20 pages

‘EVER MORE SPECIFIC’

chapter 11|20 pages

APORIA OF THE SENSIBLE