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The Handbook of

Visual Culture
CONTENTS

Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Contributors xv

Critical Approaches to the Study of Visual Culture:


An Introduction to the Handbook 1

Barry Sandywell and Ian Heywood

PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

Editorial Introduction 59

1 Major Theoretical Frameworks in Visual Culture 68

Margaret Dikovitskaya

2 Towards a New Visual Studies and Aesthetics: Theorizing the Turns 90

Catherine M. Soussloff
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3 Scopic Regimes of Modernity Revisited
Martin Jay

4 Phenomenology and Its Shadow: Visuality in the Late Work of Merleau-Ponty 115

Michael E. Gardiner

5 Hermeneutical Aesthetics and an Ontogeny of the Visual 131

Nicholas Davey
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PART TWO: ART AND VISUALITY

Editorial Introduction 155

6 Visual Culture and Contemporary Art: Reframing the Picture,

Recasting the Object? 164


Robin Marriner

7 Beyond Museology: Reframing the Sensorium 184

Donald Preziosi

8 Cubism and the Iconic Turn: A Climate of Practice,


the Object and Representation 200

Ian Heywood
9 Reframing Nature: The Visual Experience of Early Mountaineering 220
Simon Bainbridge
10 The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture 235
Martin Irvine

PART THREE: AESTHETICS, POLITICS AND VISUAL CULTURE

Editorial Introduction 281

11 Sociology of the Spectacle: Politics, Terror, Desire 290

Roy Boyne
12 Art, Feminism and Visual Culture 310
Lisa Cartwright
13 Visual Consciousness: The Impact of New Media on Literate Culture 326
Nancy Roth

14 The 'Dictatorship of the Eye': Henri Lefebvre on Vision, Space and Modernity 342
Michael E. Gardiner

15 Cubist Collage and Visual Culture: Representation and Politics 361


Ian Heywood

PART FOUR: PRACTICES AND INSTITUTIONS OF VISUAL CULTURE

Editorial Introduction 389

16 Looking Sharp: Fashion Studies 405


Malcolm Barnard

17 Seeing Things: Apprehending Material Culture 426


Tim Dant
CONTENTS ix

18 Photography and Visual Culture 445


Fiona Summers

19 Television as a Global Visual Medium 464


Kristyn Gorton

20 Film and Visual Culture 480


Andrew Spicer

21 Pragmatic Vision: Connecting Aesthetics, Materiality and Culture in

Landscape Architectural Practice 499

Kathryn Moore
22 Images and Information in Cultures of Consumption 516
Martin Hand

PART FIVE: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF VISUAL CULTURE

Editorial Introduction 535

23 The Question of Method: Practice, Reflexivity and Critique in Visual

Culture Studies 542


Gillian Rose

24 Digital Art and Visual Culture 559


Charlie Gere

25 Digitalization, Visualization and the 'Descriptive Turn in Contemporary


Sociology 572

Roger Burrows

26 Action-based Visual and Creative Methods in Social Research 589


David Gauntlett andFatimah Awan

27 Neuroscience and the Nature of Visual Culture 607


John Onians, with Helen Anderson and Kajsa Berg

28 Re-visualizing Anthropology through the Lens of The Ethnographers Eye 628

David Howes

29 Seven Theses on Visual Culture: Towards a Critical-Reflexive Paradigm for

the New Visual Studies 648

Barry Sandywell

30 Mapping the Visual Field: A Bibliographical Guide 674

Barry Sandywell

Name Index 765

Subject Index 775

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