Visual Worlds: Looking, Images, Visual Disciplines

Ideal for first-year university students from diverse backgrounds, Visual Worlds: Looking, Images, Visual Disciplines provides a full introduction to the visual world across all the fields that theorize it. In contrast with typical visual culture texts, it looks beyond the arts, taking a comparative approach that considers a number of fields including art history and theory but also epistemology, ontology, vision science, neurology, cognitive psychology, law, advertising, medicine, warfare, and more.Author: James Elkins, Erna FiorentiniPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 02/17/2020Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.70dISBN13: 9780199390915ISBN10: 0199390916BISAC Categories:- Art | Criticism & TheoryAbout the AuthorJames Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Erna Fiorentini teaches at the Institute for the History of Art and Architecture of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT, Germany.