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P 93.5 .R67 2001 Visual methodologies : an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials / | P 93.5 .S33 1996 Words, script, and pictures : semiotics of visual language / | P 93.5 .S73 1998 The rise of the image, the fall of the word / | P 93.5 .S734 1996 Good looking : essays on the virtue of images / | P 93.5 .T837 2006 Beautiful evidence / | P 93.5 .T84 1990 Envisioning information / | P 93.5 .T846 1997 Visual explanations : images and quantities, evidence and narrative / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-245) and index.
Building on the arguments of her previous books, Body Criticism (MIT Press, 1991) and Artful Science (MIT Press, 1994), Good Looking challenges the reflexive identification of images with vice. Today rampant criticism, both inside and outside the academy, condemns the immoralities of aesthetic illusion, museum display, cable television, and hypermedia. Believing with the American pragmatists that it is harder to do than to denounce, Barbara Stafford urges imagists to abandon Foucault's bankrupt paradigm of verbal combat. Instead of more "improving" theoretical discourse, she calls for developing a positive visual praxis on the interpretive ruins of linguistic postmodernism.
Organized around three major themes -- the explosion of optical information, the urgency of inventing an imaging interdiscipline, and the ethical dilemmas of technological transparency -- these twelve essays connect a disappearing lens culture to the digital diaphanousness of the twenty-first century.
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