Description
Visual Culture
Book Summary
This book offers a deep reflection on the nature of the image in the digital age. Sergio Martínez Luna analyzes how digitization, new technologies, and network interconnectivity transform our relationship with the visual. The work explores the complexity of defining the image when it becomes elusive, blurring the lines between the fixed and the moving, perception and consumption, presence and representation. A rigorous essay for understanding the role of visuality in contemporary culture.
What is it about?
The work addresses the fundamental question of what an image is in the current context. It delves into the digital condition of the image, which intensifies the indistinction between traditional categories such as still and moving images, or between the media and the devices that host them. Martínez Luna examines how, upon attempting to define it, the image proves elusive, constantly referring back to new questions. Based on this problem, the book mobilizes essential issues such as the body, materiality, visuality, the gaze, care, participation, and artifacts, offering an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary visual culture.
Main Topics
- Nature and definition of the image in the digital age.
- Transformations of visuality linked to digitization and interconnectivity.
- Relationship between body, materiality, and visual representation.
- The role of the gaze and spectator participation in visual culture.
- Analysis of artifacts and devices as mediators of visual experience.
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at students, academics, and professionals in art, visual communication, philosophy, and cultural studies. It is also of great interest to any reader with intellectual curiosity who wishes to understand how images shape our perception of the world and how technology redefines our visual experience.
What this book contributes
- An updated and rigorous reflection on the impact of the digital on the image.
- Conceptual tools to critically analyze contemporary visual culture.
- An interdisciplinary perspective that connects art theory, philosophy, and media studies.
- Keys to understanding the elusiveness of the image and its ability to generate new questions.
Technical Specifications
- Author: Martínez Luna, Sergio
- Publisher: Sans Soleil Ediciones
- Language: Spanish
- Topic: ART THEORY
- Collection: PIGMALION
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition Date: September 2019
- Number of pages: 234
- Weight: 356 g
Editorial Assessment
This is a necessary essay for those seeking to go beyond the surface of images. The work stands out for its ability to articulate complex questions about digital visuality without falling into simplifications. It is a recommended read for anyone wishing to delve into current debates on art, technology, and perception, offering a solid and contemporary theoretical framework.