Key concepts in the study of visual culture

20 Setembro 2018, 12:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Discussion of key concepts to the study of visual culture:

Culture, visual culture, vision, visuality, representation, critical visual methodology.

Recommended reading:

1. Mirzoeff, Nicholas (2003) An Introduction to Visual Culture, London and New York: Routledge

2. Rose, Gillian (2001/2016) Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials, London: Sage

3. Walker, John A. and Sarah Chaplin (1997), Visual Culture: An Introduction, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press

For next class: 

1.     Read the chapter “Practices of Looking: Images, Power and Politics”, pp. 10-36, and consider what the authors mean by “practices of looking, what processes are involved in the construction of meaning, what is meant by the myth of photographic truth.

2.     Bring one or more images to class, whose meaning changes depending on the historical and/or social context in which it is shown and viewed OR whose meaning changes if it is taken out of context or is miscaptioned.