Whitney Davis
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What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory of Visual Culture argues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifacts and pictures have been made to be seen in a certain way; what Davis calls...
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"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018" Whitney Davis is the George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include A General Theory of Visual Culture (Princeton) and Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond.
A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images
This...
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Life can be unpredictable, and no matter how much you try preparing, there are some events that will still take you by surprise. There are some things that you will never see coming such as abuse, betrayal of trust, and major loss of material things.
No matter how much you may think you have things figured out, God has a way of reminding you that your plans may not be his way. Therefore, he allows you to go through trials and misfortunes to get your...