The visual experience

Sequential images are as natural at conveying narratives as verbal language, and have appeared throughout human history, from cave paintings and tapestries right through to modern ...

In this significant contribution to aesthetic philosophy from one of the foremost writers on American poetry, Charles Altieri champions the neglected, non-cognitive aspects of our ...

The digital age has revolutionised the look of journalism, be it online or in print. The subsequent shift to multi-media and multi-platform publishing arguably makes visual appeara...

This chapter explains what the author is trying to do—to clarify, for any character c, what it is to have a visual experience with character c; and how he tries to do it—by clarify...

In Chapters 2–8 the author considered a particular character, c1, and argued that there is a certain way of looking such that to have a visual experience with character c1 is to ha...

In Chapters 2–7 the author focused on one particular ‘look’ sentence that we might use to say that you have a visual experience of the patch with character c1—‘The patch looks grey...

Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking ...

This book is the first of its kind to fully explain how to use photographs for research within Practical Theology. An essential tool for anyone exploring how visual material can sh...