Visualizing Theory: Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994

by Lucien Taylor (Editor)

Overview

Visualizing Theory is a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in Visual Anthropology Review between 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Reclaiming visual anthropology as a space for the critical representation of visual culture from the naive realist and exoticist inclinations that have beleaguered practitioners' efforts to date, Visualizing Theory is a major intervention into this growing field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415908436
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/03/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Editor of V.A.R., Lucien Taylor is a filmmaker and photographer living in Berkeley, California. His two most recent productions, co-directed with Ilisa Barbash, are Made in U.S.A., a film about sweatshops, child labor and homework in the Los Angeles garment industry, and In and Out of Africa, an ethnographic documentary about fakery, taste and racial politics in the African art market.

Table of Contents

1 The Ethnographic and the Isographic 2 Surrealism, Vision and Cultural Criticism 3 Modernity's Mediations: The Scopic and the Haptic 4 Visualizing Theory: 'In Dialogue'