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Tables of Contents for Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
x
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
1
What is visual culture?
1
2
Who wants to understand visual culture?
3
1
What this book is about
4
2
Chapter outline
6
5
Further reading
11
1
Understanding Visual Culture
12
7
Introduction
12
1
Understanding visual culture
12
3
So, who understands visual culture?
15
1
Can we tell when we understand a piece of visual culture?
16
1
What kind of thing are we doing when we understand a piece of visual culture?
16
1
What is understanding?
17
1
Conclusion
18
1
Explanation and Understanding: Visual Culture and Social Science
19
22
Introduction
19
2
Explanation and understanding: science and social science
21
8
Hermeneutic traditions
29
4
Structural traditions
33
5
Conclusion
38
1
Further reading
39
2
Interpretation and the Individual
41
23
Introduction
41
1
Fifteenth-century Italy: a church-going business man with a taste for dancing
42
6
Twentieth-century England: a fashion-conscious pansy with a taste for violence
48
6
The strengths and weaknesses of the hermeneutic account
54
7
Conclusion
61
2
Further reading
63
1
Expression and Communication
64
25
Introduction
64
2
Expression
66
8
Auteur theory
74
3
Psychoanalysis: unconscious expression
77
6
Strengths and weaknesses
83
4
Conclusion
87
1
Further reading
87
2
Feminism: Personal and Political
89
26
Introduction
89
2
Feminism and understanding
91
3
Feminism: personnel, objects, institutions and practices
94
14
Strengths and weaknesses
108
4
Conclusion
112
1
Further reading
113
2
Marxism and the Social History of Art and Design
115
28
Introduction
115
3
Marxism, understanding and structure
118
2
Arnold Hauser
120
2
Nicos Hadjinicolaou
122
2
Tim Clark
124
5
Gen Doy
129
3
Griselda Pollock
132
2
Strengths and weaknesses
134
5
Conclusion
139
1
Further reading
140
3
Semiology, Iconology and Iconography
143
25
Introduction
143
3
The sign
146
3
Denotation and connotation
149
3
Structure: narrative, syntagm and paradigm
152
7
Strengths and weaknesses
159
5
Conclusion
164
2
Further reading
166
2
Form and Style
168
26
Introduction
168
3
Form and style: Clive Bell, Heinrich Wolfflin and Clement Greenberg
171
9
Strengths and weaknesses
180
4
Dick Hebdige and Ted Polhemus
184
8
Conclusion
192
1
Further reading
193
1
Conclusion
194
7
Hermeneutics and structure
194
7
Bibliography
201
6
Index
207