This innovative collection of essays offers exciting new research and thoughtful reflection on the subject of visual culture and its relationship to art history. Brings together innovative scholarship by major scholars. Engages with cross-cultural questions, asking if attention to visual culture is a western preoccupation. Draws on a wide range of cultures, locations and hist...(展开全部)

In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic , (considered “too big, bol...(展开全部)

Visual Culture is an introductory textbook book on visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students to the analysis of all kinds of visual texts, whether drawings, paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, television programmes or new media forms. The book is illustrated with copious e...(展开全部)

Visual Culture is an introductory textbook book on visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students to the analysis of all kinds of visual texts, whether drawings, paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, television programmes or new media forms. The book is illustrated with copious e...(展开全部)

This is a revised, expanded, and updated edition of the highly successful Visual Culture . Like its predecessor, this new version is about visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students and other interested readers to the analysis of all kinds of visual text, whether drawings, paintings,...(展开全部)

This fascinating examination of visual experience offers an explanation and assessment of the traditional means of analyzing visual culture. Most of our experience is visual--we obtain most of our information and knowledge through sight, whether from reading books and newspapers, from watching television, or from quickly glimpsing road signs. Many of our judgments and decisions...(展开全部)

This fascinating examination of visual experience offers an explanation and assessment of the traditional means of analyzing visual culture. Most of our experience is visual--we obtain most of our information and knowledge through sight, whether from reading books and newspapers, from watching television, or from quickly glimpsing road signs. Many of our judgments and decisions...(展开全部)

-作者简介- 玛格丽特•迪科维茨卡娅（Margaret Dikovitskaya），加拿大维多利亚大学艺术史系教授。 -译者简介- 李芳，西南大学外国语学院副教授，文学博士，硕士生导师，主要从事美国文学与文化研究。 肖伟胜，男，1970年生，西南大学文学院教授、文学博士、博士生导师、副院长，主要从事西方美学与视觉文化研究。主持“‘文化转向’与视觉文化研究”、“‘语言学转向’与视觉方法论研究”、“视觉文化与图像意识研究”等多项国家社科基金重点项目、教育部人文社科项目等课题。撰有《视觉文化与图像意识》、《视觉文化与当代文化批评》、《现代性困境中的极端体验》等学术专著。曾在《文艺研究》、《文学评论》、《二十一世纪》（香港）等核心刊物发表论文60余篇，其中多篇被全文复印或转载。

本书作者为美国北伊利诺斯大学凯丽·弗里德曼教授，是视觉文化艺术教育的最先倡导者。该书角度新颖，既有理论阐述，又有教学实践例证，是艺术教育和审美教育领域的经典著作。 全书分为两大部分：第一部分对教育中的艺术进行理论化建构，主要从哲学和历史的视角论证在视觉文化教学中视觉艺术和艺术教育的重要性；同时艺术、学生发展和认知三者之间的关系也得到了较好的梳理。 第二部分主要阐述上述理论在实践中的应用，包括“艺术”一词的定义和解释，教育中课程概念如何渗入进艺术教育，教学过程中常用的视觉技术等内容　。最后，作者通过教学实例说明视觉艺术在表达、交际和身份认同构建中影响巨大。