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The role of the 'visual' and human perception is increasingly being seen as central to an understanding of the contemporary human condition. Interpreting Visual Culture brings together the writings of some of the 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, this collection presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture. Topics covered include: the hermeneutics of seeing the visual rhetoric of modernity the drawings of Bonnard recent feminist art practices and perceptions in art and ethics Divided into three main sections, each beginning with an introductory chapter outlining the main topics under discussion, comprehensive and engaging, Interpreting Visual Culture will be essential reading for students of sociology, cultural studies and art history. Jay M. Berstein, University of Essex, Nicholas Davey, Dundee University, Chris Fisher, University of London, Diane Hill, University of London, Michael Gardiner, Memo

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The present anthology provides readers with an eclectic collection of essays, two of them by the editors, who also give a brief and useful introduction into the emergin field of vision and the hermeneutics of the visual. The area is in its developmental stages and is marked by diverse positions on how visual metaphors and tropes work to organize and structure our understanding of the world, and how recent theory and scholarship has tried to critically deconstruct these visually organized paradigms. This book reflects this diversity. --Joe Galbo, Univ. of New Brunswick in Canadian Journal of Sociology Online . This book offers an argument about an argument. It is a poststructural step beyond postmodernism and a leap beyond the Cartesian dualisms that were once a radical call to reason. --Douglas Harper, Contemporary Sociology

The present anthology provides readers with an eclectic collection of essays, two of them by the editors, who also give a brief and useful introduction into the emergin field of vision and the hermeneutics of the visual. The area is in its developmental stages and is marked by diverse positions on how visual metaphors and tropes work to organize and structure our understanding of the world, and how recent theory and scholarship has tried to critically deconstruct these visually organized paradigms. This book reflects this diversity. --Joe Galbo, Univ. of New Brunswick in Canadian Journal of Sociology Online . <br> This book offers an argument about an argument. It is a poststructural step beyond postmodernism and a leap beyond the Cartesian dualisms that were once a radical call to reason. <br>--Douglas Harper, Contemporary Sociology <br>

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