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Visual Cultures Edited by James Elkins ISBN 9781841503073 Paperback 160 pages 230x174mm Price £17.95, $25 Available now ABOUT THE BOOK Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, featuring authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland, and Slovenia. Focusing on the national instead of the global, distinguished art critic James Elkins offers a critique of general histories of visuality, such as those of Martin Jay or Jean Baudrillard, as well as a critique of local histories of visuality, as in Third Text and other postcolonial studies. The content is not only analytic, but also historical, tracing changes in the significance of visual and verbal literacy in each nation. Visual Cultures also explores questions of national identity and the many issues Elkins raises suggest a wealth of promising avenues for future research. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: James Elkins, Luke Gibbons, Sunil Manghani, Viktoria Musvik, Ding Ning, Esther Sánchez-Pardo, Andrej Smrekar and Kris Van Heuckelom. ABOUT THE EDITOR James Elkins is the E. C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For more information, please contact: May Yao Associate Publisher (North America) [log in to unmask] Order the book online now! From North America: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9781841503073 Rest of world: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4670/