Davis, Whitney

A general theory of visual culture / by Whitney Davis - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011. - xvi,384p. 25 c.m

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

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Art and society.
Art -- Historiography.
Beeldcultuur.

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