Visual worlds / edited by John R. Hall, Blake Stimson and Lisa Tamiris Becker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; About the Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Visual Cultures and Visual Worlds; Part I Cultures; Political Culture; 1 Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation; 2 Televisual Popular Politics: Diana and Democracy; 3. Manufacturing Dissent: Challenges for Activism and Alternative Voices in the Post-9/11 World; Visual Culture; 4. Art at the Intersection of Social Fields; 5. Heart of Darkness: A Journey into the Dark Matter of the Art World; 6. Primetime art as Seen on Melrose Place; Part II Worlds.

Social Worlds7. Electronic Habitus: Agit-Prop in an Imaginary World; 8. Los Angeles as Visual World: Media, Seeing, and the City; 9. Photography's Decline into Modernism: In Praise of ""Bad"" Photographs; 10. Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs); Warring Worlds; 11. Witness to Surrender; 12. Under Siege: Mona Hatoum's Art of Displacement; 13. Mea Culpa: On Residual Culture and the Turn to Ethics; Epilogue: Visual Worlds, After 9/11; Index.

As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the emergence of new tools and conventions. Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume contains a collection of essays by internationally renowned artists and scholars from a variety of fields (including art history, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, film and television studies, intellectual history and sociology). It was conceived to address a bold query: how is our experience and understanding of vision and visua.

English.

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