Tag Archives: Sturken

Collecting & the Value of Images

Posted on September 7, 2010 by vizrhet

Drawing upon Clifford, Sturken & Cartwright claim that the “Practices of collecting are intricately tied up in practices of exhibition and the valuing of work that comes from that display” (p. 64). How does this complicate your sense of the … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric as Mediator

Posted on September 7, 2010 by vizrhet

In Practices of Looking, Sturken & Cartwright claim that language and systems of representation do not reflect (or copy or stand in for) an already existing reality so much as they organize, construct, and mediate our understanding of reality, emotion, … Continue reading →

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What is visible/visual rhetoric? What is visual culture?

Posted on August 31, 2010 by vizrhet

Please share your understandings of visual rhetoric (or visible rhetoric–if you distinguish it from visual rhetoric) and visual culture. Although you may quote and cite some of the sources you read for today (Olson’s “Intellectual and Conceptual Resources for Visual … Continue reading →

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