Visual Display

Culture Beyond Appearances: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #10

Edited by Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen

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A "highly recommended" (Library Journal) contribution to the interdisciplinary debate about how cultural differences are implicit within visual forms.
Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen have assembled a fascinating collection of complex and provocative essays that use contemporary theory to explore the history of visual display.
-- Leslie Camhi, writer and cultural critic
Visual Display explores the politics of visual representation through provocative essays by a distinguished group of scholars, historians, cultural critics, and curators.  The essays, which span a broad range of subjects, including sci-fi movie making, modern medical imaging, tourist art, politico-economic charting, eighteenth-century cabinets of curiosity, and museology, seek to uncover how different cultural contexts translate the meaning of visual information.

Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.

Lynne Cooke has been Curator at the Dia Center for the Arts since 1991.  She has published widely on contemporary art, and is coeditor of Joseph Beuys: Arena -- where would I have got if I had been intelligent! (D.A.P. in association with Dia Center for the Arts, 1994).  She has also taught at various institutions including the University of London.

Peter Wollen is Professor of Film in the Critical Studies Program of the Film Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is a filmmaker, film theorist, and has written widely on the history of art.  His most recent books are Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture (Indiana University Press, 1993) and Singin' in the Rain (BFI Publishing, 1992).  He has also curated exhibitions, including "Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti" and "The Situationists International."
Fall 1998
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x, 352 pages
978-1-56584-495-7

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