Mobility And Fantasy In Visual Culture

Download Mobility And Fantasy In Visual Culture full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Mobility And Fantasy In Visual Culture ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture

Author : Lewis Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113674715X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture by : Lewis Johnson

Download or read book Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture written by Lewis Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues such as migration; globalization; trans-nationality and trans-cultural difference; art, space and place; new media; fantasy and identity; and the movement across and the transgression of the proprieties of boundaries and borders. The book invites the reader to read across the collection, noting differences or making connections between media and forms and between audiences, critical traditions and practitioners, with a view to developing a more informed understanding of visual culture and its modalities of mobility and fantasy as encouraged by dominant, emergent, and radical forms of visual practice.

Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture

Author : Lewis Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136747087
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture by : Lewis Johnson

Download or read book Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture written by Lewis Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues such as migration; globalization; trans-nationality and trans-cultural difference; art, space and place; new media; fantasy and identity; and the movement across and the transgression of the proprieties of boundaries and borders. The book invites the reader to read across the collection, noting differences or making connections between media and forms and between audiences, critical traditions and practitioners, with a view to developing a more informed understanding of visual culture and its modalities of mobility and fantasy as encouraged by dominant, emergent, and radical forms of visual practice.

Visual Culture

Author : Norman Bryson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574236
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Visual Culture by : Norman Bryson

Download or read book Visual Culture written by Norman Bryson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We can no longer see, much less teach, transhistorical truths, timeless works of art, and unchanging critical criteria without a highly developed sense of irony about the grand narratives of the past,” declare the editors, who also coedited Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation (1990). The field of art history is not unique in finding itself challenged and enlarged by cultural debates over issues of class, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and gender. Visual Culture assembles some of the foremost scholars of cultural studies and art history to explore new critical approaches to a history of representation seen as something different from a history of art. CONTRIBUTORS: Andres Ross, Michael Ann Holly, Mieke Bal, David Summers, Constance Penley, Kaja Silverman, Ernst Van Alphen, Norman Bryson, Wolfgang Kemp, Whitney Davis, Thomas Crow, Keith Moxey, John Tagg, Lisa Tickner. Ebook Edition Note: Ebook edition note: all illustrations have been redacted.

Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime

Author : Temenuga Trifonova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315299135
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime by : Temenuga Trifonova

Download or read book Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime written by Temenuga Trifonova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of its long and tumultuous history the sublime has alternated between spatial and temporal definitions, from its conceptualization in terms of the grandeur and infinity of Nature (spatial), to its postmodern redefinition as an "event" (temporal), from its conceptualization in terms of our failure to "cognitively map" the decentered global network of capital or the rhizomatic structure of the postmetropolis (spatial), to its neurophenomenological redefinition in terms of the new temporality of presence produced by network/real time (temporal). This volume explores the place of the sublime in contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and political values coded in it. It offers a map of the contemporary sublime in terms of the limits—cinematic, cognitive, neurophysiological, technological, or environmental—of representation.

Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture

Author : Falk Heinrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317755170
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture by : Falk Heinrich

Download or read book Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture written by Falk Heinrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations. After considering established theories of beauty, for example, Plato, Alison, Hume, Kant, Gadamer and Santayana through to McMahon and Sartwell, Heinrich argues that the experience of beauty in participatory art demands a revised notion of beauty; a conception that accounts for the performative and ludic turn within various art forms and which is, in a broader sense, a notion of beauty suited to a participatory and technology-saturated culture. Through case studies of participatory art, he provides an art-theoretical approach to the concept of performative beauty; an approach that is then applied to the wider context of media and design artefacts.

Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art

Author : Meiqin Wang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317481690
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art by : Meiqin Wang

Download or read book Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art written by Meiqin Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between the ongoing urbanization in China and the production of contemporary Chinese art since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wang provides a detailed analysis of artworks and methodologies of art-making from eight contemporary artists who employ a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and performance. She also sheds light on the relationship between these artists and their sociocultural origins, investigating their provocative responses to various processes and problems brought about by Chinese urbanization. With this urbanization comes a fundamental shift of the philosophical and aesthetic foundations in the practice of Chinese art: from a strong affiliation with nature and countryside to one that is complexly associated with the city and the urban world.

How Folklore Shaped Modern Art

Author : Wes Hill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317394704
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis How Folklore Shaped Modern Art by : Wes Hill

Download or read book How Folklore Shaped Modern Art written by Wes Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art practices, the emphasis on first-person accounts of identity over critical theory, and the proliferation of exhibitions that refuse to distinguish between art and the productions of culture more generally. How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics underscores how the cultural traditions, belief systems and performed exchanges that were once integral to the folklore discipline are now central to contemporary art’s "post-critical turn." This shift is considered here as less a direct confrontation of critical procedures than a symptom of art’s inclusive ideals, overturning the historical separation of fine art from those "uncritical" forms located in material and commercial culture. In a global context, aesthetics is now just one of numerous traditions informing our encounters with visual culture today, symptomatic of the pull towards an impossibly pluralistic image of art that reflects the irreducible conditions of identity.

Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Sondra Bacharach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317387449
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century by : Sondra Bacharach

Download or read book Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century written by Sondra Bacharach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaboration in the arts is no longer a conscious choice to make a deliberate artistic statement, but instead a necessity of artistic survival. In today’s hybrid world of virtual mobility, collaboration decentralizes creative strategies, enabling artists to carve new territories and maintain practice-based autonomy in an increasingly commercial and saturated art world. Collaboration now transforms not only artistic practices but also the development of cultural institutions, communities and personal lifestyles. This book explores why collaboration has become so integrated into a greater understanding of creative artistic practice. It draws on an emerging generation of contributors—from the arts, art history, sociology, political science, and philosophy—to engage directly with the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of collaborative practice of the future.

Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing

Author : Asbjørn Grønstad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317202023
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing by : Asbjørn Grønstad

Download or read book Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing written by Asbjørn Grønstad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent mediasphere where images – as lenses bearing on their own circumstances – are constantly mobilized to enact symbolic forms of warfare and where they get entangled in all kinds of cultural conflicts and controversies, a turn to the gestural life of images seems to promise a particularly pertinent avenue of intellectual inquiry. The complex gestures of the artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies. In visual art, the gestural appears to be that which intervenes between form and content, materiality and meaning. But as a conceptual force it also impinges upon the very process of seeing itself. As a critical and heuristic trope, the gestural galvanizes many of the most pertinent areas of inquiry in contemporary debates and scholarship in visual culture and related disciplines: ethics (images and their values and affects), aesthetics (from visual essentialism to transesthetics and synesthesia), ecology (iconoclastic gestures and spaces of conflict), and epistemology (questions of the archive, memory and documentation). Offering fresh perspectives on many of these areas, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing will be intensely awaited by readers from and across several disciplines, such as anthropology, linguistics, performance, theater, film and visual studies.

Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism

Author : David Houston Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317679075
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism by : David Houston Jones

Download or read book Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism written by David Houston Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. It traces a line of argument from practitioners who explicitly depict the archive (Samuel Beckett, Christian Boltanski, Art & Language, Walid Raad) to those whose materials and practices are archival (Mirosław Bałka, Jean-Luc Godard, Silvia Kolbowski, Boltanski, Atom Egoyan). Jones considers in particular the widespread nostalgia for ‘archival’ media such as analogue photographs and film. He analyses the innovative strategies by which such artefacts are incorporated, examining five distinct types of archival practice: the intermedial, testimonial, personal, relational and monumentalist.

The Uses of Art in Public Space

Author : Julia Lossau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317631900
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Uses of Art in Public Space by : Julia Lossau

Download or read book The Uses of Art in Public Space written by Julia Lossau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm. Whilst most writing about public art has focused on the aesthetic, cultural and political intentions and processes that shape its production, this edited collection examines a variety of public artworks from the perspective of their actual everyday use. Contributors are interested in the rich diversity of peoples’ engagements with public artworks across various spatial and temporal scales, encounters which do not limit themselves to the representational aspects of the art, and which are not necessarily as the artist, curator or sponsor intended. Case studies consider a broad range of public art, including commissioned and unofficial artworks, memorials, street art, street furniture, performance art, sound art and media installations.

Spiritual Art and Art Education

Author : Janis Lander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134667965
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Spiritual Art and Art Education by : Janis Lander

Download or read book Spiritual Art and Art Education written by Janis Lander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of contemporary spirituality as it is practiced in the world today, characterized by its secular and inclusive nature, and applied to art and art education. It identifies the issues facing a formal introduction of contemporary spiritual concepts into a secular and multicultural arts educational environment. Lander begins by separating the notion of "the spiritual" from the study of organized religions. She uses examples of art from different cultures in contemporary spiritual systems, making the study a reference book for contemporary spirituality and spirituality in art education, with usable definitions and practical examples suitable for scholars in art and visual studies, art education, and contemporary spirituality.

Art in the Asia-Pacific

Author : Larissa Hjorth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317935713
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Art in the Asia-Pacific by : Larissa Hjorth

Download or read book Art in the Asia-Pacific written by Larissa Hjorth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As social, locative, and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, this volume interrogates how this phenomenon impacts art practice and politics. Contributors bring together the worlds of art and media culture to rethink their intersections in light of participatory social media. By focusing upon the Asia-Pacific region, they seek to examine how regionalism and locality affect global circuits of culture. The book also offers a set of theoretical frameworks and methodological paradigms for thinking about contemporary art practice more generally.

On Not Looking

Author : Frances Guerin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317587405
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On Not Looking by : Frances Guerin

Download or read book On Not Looking written by Frances Guerin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture focuses on the image, and our relationship to it, as a site of "not looking." The collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers often do not look at the images, and in other cases, we are encouraged by the context of exhibition not to look at images. Contributors discuss an array of images—photographs, films, videos, press images, digital images, paintings, sculptures, and drawings—from everyday life, museums and galleries, and institutional contexts such as the press and political arena. The themes discussed include: politics of institutional exhibition and perception of images; censored, repressed, and banned images; transformations to practices of not looking as a result of new media interventions; images in history and memory; not looking at images of bodies and cultures on the margins; responses to images of trauma; and embodied vision.

W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory

Author : Krešimir Purgar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317288904
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory by : Krešimir Purgar

Download or read book W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory written by Krešimir Purgar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world. This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies – pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others – while systematically presenting the work of Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures. As a special feature, the book includes three comprehensive, authoritative and theoretically relevant interviews with Mitchell that focus on different stages of development of visual studies and critical iconology.

Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices

Author : Tim Stott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317531981
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices by : Tim Stott

Download or read book Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices written by Tim Stott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular, it analyzes ludic participation, in which play and games are used organizationally so that participants actively engage with or complete the work of art through their play. Here Stott explores the complex and systematic organization of works of ludic participation, showing how these correlate with social systems of communication, exhibition, and governance. At a time when the advocacy of play and participation has become widespread in our culture, he addresses the shortage of literature on the use of play and games in modern and contemporary arts practice in order to begin a play theory of organization and governance.

Photography and Place

Author : Donna West Brett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317565649
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Photography and Place by : Donna West Brett

Download or read book Photography and Place written by Donna West Brett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we remember places and events that happened there. This includes recording events as they happen, or recording places where something occurred before the photograph was taken, commonly referred to as aftermath photography. This book presents a theoretical and historical analysis of German photography of place after 1945. It analyses how major historical ruptures in twentieth-century Germany and associated places of trauma, memory and history affected the visual field and the circumstances of looking. These ruptures are used to generate a new reading of postwar German photography of place. The analysis includes original research on world-renowned German photographers such as Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand, Michael Schmidt, Boris Becker and Thomas Ruff as well as photographers largely unknown in the Anglophone world.