Visual Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0415106230
- ISBN-13
- 9780415106238
- Series
- Visual Culture
- Category
- Arts and society
- Pages
- 269
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Chris Jenks
Description
Visual Culture is a collection of original and critical essays addressing 'vision' as a social and cultural process. The book exposes the organised but implicit structuring of a highly significant yet utterly routine dimension of social relations, the 'seen'. What we see, and the manner in which we come to see it, is not simply part of a natural ability. It is rather intimately linked with the ways that our society has, over time, arranged its forms of knowledge, its strategies of power and its systems of desire. We can no longer be assured that what we see is what we should believe in. There is only a social not a formal relation between vision and truth.
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