Mixed Forms of Visual Culture: From the Cabinet of Curiosities to Digital Diversity

by Mary Anne Francis

This book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or interweave incongruous elements in innovative ways. And with an emphasis on the material aspects of such entities, the book adopts the term 'mixed form' for them.

Focusing on key phenomena in the last half millennium, such as the cabinet of curiosities, the broadside ballad and the chapbook as early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350211419
• ISBN13: 9781350211414
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"