In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture
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Book Overview
Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity--sexual, racial, national--and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions that produce them, such as cinema, photography, advertising, and television, and more as hybrid mental constructs composed of fragments derived from the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520202996
ISBN13:9780520202993
Release Date:December 1996
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:329 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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An invaluable contribution to visual culture
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Burgin's book is a wonderful contribution to the growing field of visual culture. His examinations of Helmut Newton are beyond reproach, and his ability to link aesthetic experiences with the development of social consciousness (using, among others, theorists Lacan and Mulvey) is impressive. All delivered with good humor and supplemented by personal anecdote, this book is absolutely vital for anyone interesting in visual culture.
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