-“The term ‘visual culture’ encompasses many media forms ranging from fine art to popular film and television to advertising to visual data in fields such as the sciences, law, and medicine” (1.) What I like about this book is that the term visual culture is used instantly. It will clearly be a source that will aid me in my articulation of my understanding of visual culture.
-Culture was originally thought to be [closely connected to] the fine arts.
-“Culture is something cultivated in people through exposure to and education about quality” (3).
-The “anthropological definition” of culture describes a way of life. This means, “a broad range of activities geared toward classifying and communicating symbolically within society” (3).
**Visual Culture: The shared practices of a group , community, or society through which meanings are made out of the visual, aural, and textual world of representations and they ways that looking practices are engaged in symbolic and communicative activities.
-“Culture is a process” (4).
“Practices of Looking is concerned with those aspects of culture that are manifested in visual form or that are organized in a way that invites looking” (4). What I like about this is that it’s all encompassing (as far as the visual goes).
So far, so great.
