Visual Communication Books: Exploring Visual Culture: Definitions, Concepts, Contexts (9780748618453) By Matthew Rampley

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Exploring Visual Culture: Definitions, Concepts, Contexts
  • Title: Exploring Visual Culture: Definitions, Concepts, Contexts
  • Author: Matthew Rampley
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Published Date: June 2005
  • ISBN: 9780748618453
  • Pages: 272
  • Format: Paperback
  • Price:   United Kingdom   USA
 The Book
  • The meanings of the term 'visual culture' and of the various practices that form its basis
  • Conceptual approaches to the contemporary analysis of visual culture
  • The cultural, social and historical contexts informing its production, distribution and consumption
  • Accessibly written by a team of experts in the field
  • Illustrated throughout
  • Includes chapters on a wide range of visual forms, including architecture and urban design, film, crafts, fashion, design, fine art and the media.
The Author

Matthew Rampley - Assistant Dean (Research) in the School of Arts and Media, University of Teesside. Published widely on visual theory and culture. Author of Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity and In Remembrance of Things Past On Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin.
Inside the Book
  • Introduction
  • Visual Culture and the Meanings of Culture
  • Definitions of Art and the Art World
  • Concepts of Craft
  • Design and Modern Culture
  • Fashion: Style, Identity and Meaning
  • Photography and Film
  • Architecture and Visual Culture
  • Representation and the Idea of Realism
  • Visual Rhetoric
  • The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Author
  • The Ideology of the Visual
  • Visual Practices in the Age of Industry
  • Technical Reproduction and Its Significance
  • From Mass Media to Cyberculture
  • Visual Culture and Its Institutions

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