Visual Culture

by Alexis L Boylan and Alexis L. Boylan

How to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.

The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see--color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels, a photograph of Kim Kardashian West--somehow becomes legible, normalized, accessible. How does this happen? How do we live and move in our visual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262539365
• ISBN13: 9780262539364
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 6.9"