[ecrea] Visual Cultures. Edited by James Elkins

> Visual Cultures. Edited by James Elkins
>
> ISBN 9781841503073
> Paperback 160 pages 230x174mm
> Price £17.95, $25
>
> Available now
>
> ABOUT THE BOOK
>
> Visual Cultures is the first study of the place 
> of visuality and literacy in specific nations 
> around the world, featuring authoritative, 
> insightful essays on the value accorded to the 
> visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland, and Slovenia.
>
> Focusing on the national instead of the global, 
> distinguished art critic James Elkins offers a 
> critique of general histories of visuality, such 
> as those of Martin Jay or Jean Baudrillard, as 
> well as a critique of local histories of 
> visuality, as in Third Text and other 
> postcolonial studies. The content is not only 
> analytic, but also historical, tracing changes 
> in the significance of visual and verbal 
> literacy in each nation. Visual Cultures also 
> explores questions of national identity and the 
> many issues Elkins raises suggest a wealth of 
> promising avenues for future research.
>
> CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: James Elkins, Luke 
> Gibbons, Sunil Manghani, Viktoria Musvik, Ding 
> Ning, Esther Sánchez-Pardo, Andrej Smrekar and Kris Van Heuckelom.
>
> ABOUT THE EDITOR
> James Elkins is the E. C. Chadbourne Professor 
> in the Department of Art History, Theory, and 
> Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
>
>
>
> For more information, please contact:
> May Yao
> Associate Publisher (North America)
> (may /at/ intellectbooks.com)
>
> Order the book online now!
>
> From North America:
> <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9781841503073>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9781841503073
>
> Rest of world:
> <http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4670/>http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4670/

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