Visuality and Virtuality: Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Visuality and Virtuality: Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective
By (Author) Whitney Davis
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
22nd January 2018
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Media studies
701.18
Physical Properties
Hardback
368
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
1021g
Description
A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis's acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewer
Reviews
"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018"
Author Bio
Whitney Davis is the George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include A General Theory of Visual Culture (Princeton) and Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond.
