Global Visual Cultures: An Anthology
Zoya Kocur
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Description for Global Visual Cultures: An Anthology
Paperback. Global Visual Cultures is a definitive anthology that provides a new and groundbreaking perspective on the field, and addresses multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the "everyday" to global political contexts. Editor(s): Kocur, Zoya. Num Pages: 424 pages, ill. BIC Classification: AB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 190 x 21. Weight in Grams: 918.
Global Visual Cultures is a definitive anthology that provides a new and groundbreaking perspective on the field, and addresses multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the "everyday" to global political contexts.
Global Visual Cultures is a definitive anthology that provides a new and groundbreaking perspective on the field, and addresses multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the "everyday" to global political contexts.
- Expands the theoretical framework for considering visual culture
- Brings together a rich selection of readings relevant in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary settings, from critical theory, anthropology and history, to political science, architecture, and ethnic, race and gender studies
- Analyzes cultural phenomena in global and local contexts and across a broad geographical and geopolitical terrain
- Address multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the "everyday" to global ... Read more
- Offers ample, useful pedagogy that reveals the multi-faceted nature of visual culture
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405169202
SKU
V9781405169202
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Zoya Kocur
Zoya Kocur is an independent scholar based in New York. She has taught at New York University and the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the former Associate Curator of Education at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, co-editor of the volume Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, and co-editor of Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985 (2005 Wiley-Blackwell).
Reviews for Global Visual Cultures: An Anthology
"What makes this volume unique is its welcoming of various topics; asking its readers to stroll over these by putting them side-by-side and by putting aside, if there is any, their categorical and/or taxonomical views; and having the company of these myriad fields of visual culture... Global Visual Cultures is a timely endeavour in broaching our capacity to imagine the ... Read more