Visual Culture Books

New and Published Books – Page 6

51. Visual Communication

    Integrating Media, Art, and Science

    By Rick Williams, Julianne Newton

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    A well-rounded education in the 21st century requires not just verbal and mathematical proficiency, but also the ability to interpret, critique, create, and use visual communication on sophisticated levels. In today’s visual world, it is critically important to hold an appreciation for the...

    Published July 3rd 2007 by Routledge
52. Freud's Art - Psychoanalysis Retold

    By Janet Sayers

    In Freud's Art – Psychoanalysis Retold Janet Sayers provides a refreshing new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its story through art. She does this by bringing together experts from psychoanalysis, art history, and art education to show how art and psychoanalysis illuminate...

    Published April 18th 2007 by Routledge
53. Digital Encounters

    By Aylish Wood

    Digital Encounters is a cross media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games, and installation art. In a world increasingly marked by proliferating technologies, the way we encounter and understand these story-worlds, game spaces and art works reveals aspects of the ways in which...

    Published April 16th 2007 by Routledge
54. Multi-media

    Video – Installation – Performance

    By Nick Kaye

    Multi-media charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commissioned documentations by some of the world’s foremost artists. Nick Kaye explores the interdisciplinary history and character of experimental...

    Published April 11th 2007 by Routledge
55. Abstract Space

    Beneath the Media Surface

    By Therese Tierney

    This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Through a range of material, from theoretical texts to experimental design projects, Tierney explores notions of what the architectural image means...

    Published March 4th 2007 by Taylor & Francis
56. Urban Culture

    Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

    Edited by Chris Jenks

    Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

    This collection is an interdisciplinary study focusing on the various cultural aspects of city life. The works included are drawn from a broad range of canonical and secondary sources and emphasise the 'new', covering modernist and postmodernist perspectives of urban culture. The collection is...

    Published July 21st 2004 by Routledge
57. Material Culture

    Edited by Victor Buchli

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

    Material culture is the study of material products of human manufacturing processes, or 'the history of things'. Since material culture studies re-emerged within Anglo-American archaeology and anthropology in the late 1960s, this field of study has spread to a variety of other disciplines including...

    Published April 21st 2004 by Routledge
58. Visual Studies

    A Skeptical Introduction

    By James Elkins

    In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. Then, with the skill and insight that have marked his successful books on art and visuality, Elkins takes the reader down a side road where...

    Published August 7th 2003 by Routledge
59. The Hieroglyphics of Space

    Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis

    Edited by Neil Leach

    'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the basis of social reality presents itself.' But how exactly are these spatial images to be deciphered? Hieroglyphics of...

    Published November 21st 2001 by Routledge
60. Brazil Built

    The Architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil

    By Zilah Quezado Deckker

    Brazil Built is an examination of the architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil. In the 1940s and 1950s, Brazil acquired unprecedented prestige in the world of Modern architecture. Brazil was regarded as the country which had inherited the progressive Modernism of the pre-war period in Europe,...

    Published April 25th 2001 by Taylor & Francis