Aesthetics of Image and Cultural Form

<p>Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model this book proposes to situate analysis of Image within ‘formal’ analyses of culture experience.</p><p>Specifically the discussion draws on theories of affective aesthetics with the view of addressing the sensual form of culture (i.e. ‘cultural form’). Therefore the volume puts forward a mode of formalist analysis in visual cultural research which takes purchase on the idea of ‘cultural form’. A continuum of formalist attention between Image analysis (visual media industrial design) and probing of ‘cultural forms’ establishes the theoretical underpinning of the book. These concepts are expounded through a case study which looks at formal experimentations and debates arising from 1960s avant-garde artistic practices in London.</p>