Visual Culture

Alexis L. Boylan

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MIT Press
03 November 2020

The Arts: General & Reference; Cultural studies

As if John Berger's Ways of Seeing was re-written for the 21st century, Alexis L. Boylan crafts a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture in this concise introduction.

How to think about what it means to look and see- a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.

The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see-color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels, a photograph of Kim Kardashian West-somehow becomes legible, normalized, accessible. How does this happen? How do we live and move in our visual environments? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture, outlining strategies for thinking about what it means to look and see-and what is at stake in doing so.

Visual culture has always been inscribed by the dominant and by domination. This book suggests how we might weaponize the visual for positive, unifying change. Drawing on both historical and contemporary examples-from Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party and Beyonce and Jay-Z at the Louvre to the first images of a black hole-Alexis Boylan considers how we engage with and are manipulated by what we see. She begins with what- what is visual culture, and what questions, ideas, and quandaries animate our approach to the visual? She continues with where- where are we allowed to see it, and where do we stand when we look? Then, who- whose bodies have been present or absent from visual culture, and who is allowed to see it? And, finally, when- is the visual detached from time? When do we see what we need to see?

By: Alexis L. Boylan
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 306g
ISBN: 9780262539364
ISBN 10: 0262539365
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 03 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xiii 1 What 1 2 Where 41 3 Who 87 4 When 137 Conclusion 181 Glossary 187 Notes 193 Further Reading 205 Index 209

Alexis L. Boylan is Associate Professor in the Art and Art History Department and the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man.

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Boylan's work is provocative: she pushes readers to step outside of the routine passive reception to images everywhere and asks for consideration of the impact of these thousands of images on our psyches and our sense of our place in the world. --PopMatters

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