Presuming images and consuming words : the visualization of knowledge from the Enlightenment to post-modernism

Author

Stafford, Barbara Maria

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Consumption and the world of goods

Author (monograph)

Brewer, John (Editor, Collective Author); Porter, Roy (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Consumption and the world of goods. 1993, 462-477, 13 ill.

Publisher

Routledge, London (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Argues that society has been moving, from the 18th c. onward, towards a visual and, now, an electronically generated culture. Traditionally this visual culture has suffered from a low status. Calls attention to the poverty of our current observational skills and demonstrates that educated seeing is about recognizing that information cannot be separated from the manner or style of its display, and that the enlightened observer, with the guidance of the artist, patterns and constructs reality through process knowledge. Visual lessons and visual means learned from the past could be applied imaginatively to tackle current problems in imaging.

Subject (en)

• General history of art
• Perception
• Epistemology
• Electronic imaging
• Logocentricity
• Imagery
• 1700-2000

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art
• Perception
• Epistémologie
• Image électronique
• Logocentrisme
• Image
• 1700-2000

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19960101-00283707

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