TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Whitney
TI  - A General Theory of Visual Culture
SN  - 9781400836437
U1  - 701/.03 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - ART / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ADAPT
KW  - Aesthetic Theory
KW  - Aestheticism
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Analogy
KW  - Art criticism
KW  - Art exhibition
KW  - Art for art's sake
KW  - Art history
KW  - Art of memory
KW  - Awareness
KW  - Causal theory of reference
KW  - Causality
KW  - Cognitive anthropology
KW  - Cognitive module
KW  - Color scheme
KW  - Comparative research
KW  - Concept
KW  - Conflation
KW  - Connoisseur
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Contextualism
KW  - Courtauld Institute of Art
KW  - Cultural artifact
KW  - Cultural history
KW  - Cultural icon
KW  - Culturalism
KW  - Culture theory
KW  - Depiction
KW  - Dissemination
KW  - Emergence
KW  - Engraving
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Feminist art
KW  - Figurative art
KW  - Fine art
KW  - Formalism (art)
KW  - Formality
KW  - Handbook
KW  - Historical method
KW  - Human figure (aesthetics)
KW  - Iconicity
KW  - Iconography
KW  - Iconology
KW  - Ideation (creative process)
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Illustration
KW  - Illustrator
KW  - Individuation
KW  - Intentionality
KW  - Interaction
KW  - Invention
KW  - Language-game (philosophy)
KW  - Languages of Art
KW  - Level of analysis
KW  - Level of consciousness (Esotericism)
KW  - Mental image
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Nominalism
KW  - Notation
KW  - Obfuscation
KW  - Objectivity (philosophy)
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Ostensive definition
KW  - Performativity
KW  - Perspective (graphical)
KW  - Pictorialism
KW  - Pigment
KW  - Platitude
KW  - Pop art
KW  - Positivism
KW  - Precognition
KW  - Publication
KW  - Reflexology
KW  - School of thought
KW  - Self-consciousness
KW  - Social theory
KW  - Sociocultural evolution
KW  - Sociology of culture
KW  - Solipsism
KW  - Sophistication
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Suggestion
KW  - Symbol
KW  - Symptom
KW  - Theoretical definition
KW  - Theory of Forms
KW  - Theory of art
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thought experiment
KW  - Thought
KW  - Typography
KW  - Visual arts
KW  - Visual culture
KW  - Visual perception
KW  - Visual semiotics
KW  - Work of art
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; PART ONE The Successions of Visual Culture --; Chapter 1 Vision Has an Art History --; Chapter 2 Vision and the Successions to Visual Culture --; PART TWO What Is Cultural about Vision? --; Chapter 3 What Is Formalism? --; Chapter 4 The Stylistic Succession --; Chapter 5 The Close Reading of Artifacts --; Chapter 6 Successions of Pictoriality --; Chapter 7 The Iconographic Succession --; Chapter 8 Visuality and Pictoriality --; Chapter 9 How Visual Culture Becomes Visible --; Chapter 10 Visuality and the Cultural Succession --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory of Visual Culture argues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifacts and pictures have been made to be seen in a certain way; what Davis calls "visuality" is the visual perspective from which certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. In this book, Davis provides a systematic analysis of visuality and describes how it comes into being as a historical form of vision. Expansive in scope, A General Theory of Visual Culture draws on art history, aesthetics, the psychology of perception, the philosophy of reference, and vision science, as well as visual-cultural studies in history, sociology, and anthropology. It provides penetrating new definitions of form, style, and iconography, and draws important and sometimes surprising conclusions (for example, that vision does not always attain to visual culture, and that visual culture is not always wholly visible). The book uses examples from a variety of cultural traditions, from prehistory to the twentieth century, to support a theory designed to apply to all human traditions of making artifacts and pictures--that is, to visual culture as a worldwide phenomenon
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400836437?locatt=mode:legacy
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