Global Visual Cultures

An Anthology

Kocur, Zoya (Editor)

1. Edition March 2011
424 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6920-2

John Wiley & Sons

Short Description

Global Visual Cultures is a definitive collection of works that address multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the "everyday" to global political contexts. Contributing to an expanding theoretical framework for considering visual culture, the volume brings together a selection of readings from critical theory, anthropology and history, to political science, architecture, and ethnic, race and gender studies. Revealing the interplay between areas of study in this diverse field, this definitive anthology provides a new and groundbreaking perspective on visual culture on a global scale.

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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 political contexts
* Offers ample, useful pedagogy that reveals the multi-faceted nature of visual culture

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Images

Introduction

Part I: Realigned Art Worlds: art/agency/globalism

Part II: (in)Visible architectures: space/geopolitics/power

Part III: Mediated Bodies: representation/circulation/self

Part IV: Afterimage: trauma/history/memory

Index

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).

Z. Kocur, New York University, USA