Aesthetics and Visual Culture

This set of resources supports research and courses in visual culture, as well as the more specific philosophical study of aesthetics. As you will see, some sections are not as complete as others, and I would welcome suggestions for those or any other parts of the page. Bruce B. Janz Last updated: 5 April 2009

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*: Particularly useful sites

• Art History Introductory Page
• Contemporary Culture Page (B. Janz)
• Continental Philosophy Page (B. Janz)
• CTheory
• *CULTSOCK: Culture, Communication, and Media Studies
• Digital Culture -- actually part of my course page for Philosophy, Technology, and the Environment, but there are useful links there.
• k.i.s.s. of the Panopticon
• *The Media and Communications Studies Site
• *Media History Project -- info on defunct media
• *MCS Visual Communication/Literacy Page
• Research on Place and Space: Art and Place, Architecture and Place (B. Janz)
• Visual Communications -- U. of Iowa
• *Visual Communication Web Links -- Paul Martin Lester, Cal. State Fullerton
• *Voice of the Shuttle Art and Art History Page -- huge collection of links, regularly updated.
• Voice of the Shuttle Media Theory and History Page -- part of the media page.

Aesthetics/Philosophy of Art

• Aesthetics, in ArtLex

Body/Embodiment

• Voice of the Shuttle's Body/Corporeality Page -- part of the cultural studies page.

The Gaze/Looking, The Eye

• n.a., "Calvin Klein's Pornographic Gaze"
• The Eye Page
• Notes on the Gaze -- David Chandler

History of Aesthetics

• *American Society for Aesthetics: Aesthetics On-Line -- has articles, bibliographies, teaching resources, etc.
• Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
• Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication
• Visual Communication Web Links: Visual Theory

History of Visual Experience

Optics/Physics

• Visual Communication Web Links: Light and Colour

Physiology and Visual Experience

• Paper: Freeman, Walter, The Physiology of Perception
• Visual Communication Web Links: Eye, Retina, and the Brain
• Visual Experience and Motion. Examples from Donald Hoffman, Visual Experience: How We Create What We See.

Pomo Run Amok

• Notes on Postmodernism (Timothy Quigley)
• Friedman, Ted. The World of The World of Coca-Cola
• Sawchuck, Kimberly Ann. Post Panoptic Mirrored Worlds

Psychology and Visual Experience (including visual illusions)

• Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition
• MCS Optical Illusions Site
• MCS Visual Perception Site -- good collection of on-line papers
• The Grand Illusions Home Page -- a page on perception and illusion
• The Joys of Visual Perception -- Peter Kaiser. On-line book
• Visual Communication Web Links: Visual Cues
• Visual Illusions
• Visual Perception -- Daniel Chandler

Representation and Interpretation

• MCS Active Interpretation Page
• MCS Representation Page -- lots of on-line papers
• MCS Social and Personal Identity Page -- lots of on-line papers

Semiotics and Semiology

• MCS Semiotics Page
• *Semiotics (Martin Ryder) -- excellent collection of links on figures and themes
• Semiotics and Western Painting (Timothy Quigley)
• Semiotics for Beginners (Daniel Chandler)
• Semiotics of the Visible, an issue of Applied Semiotics
• Sites of Significance for Semiotics (Applied Semiotics links)
• Structuralism and Post-structuralism (Timothy Quigley)

Visuality and (sub-)Culture

• A Study of Gothic Subculture: An Inside Look for Outsiders
• Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall -- graffiti site
• Library of Congress American Memory Centre

Visuality and Gender

• Bibliography: Gender, Body Image, and Identity
• Bibliography: Gender Issues in Film
• Bibliography: Images of Men and Masculinity in the Mass Media (Steve Craig)
• Bibliography: Television and Gender Issues (Ryerson)
• MCS Gender Page -- lots of on-line papers

Visuality and Race/Ethnicity

• MCS Ethnicity Page

Visuality and Politics

• MCS Media Institutions and Politics links

Vision and Knowledge

• Biases of the Eye and Ear: 'Great Divide' Theories, Phonocentrism, Graphocentrism & Logocentrism -- Daniel Chandler
• Visual Communication Web Links: Visual Persuasion

Writing and Speaking

• MCS Writing and Speaking Site

Advertising

• Advertising Age
• MCS Advertising Page
• Media History Project's Advertising Links

Animation

• Atom Films

Architecture

• Bridge Aesthetics
• Gibian, Peter. The Art of Being Off-Center: Shopping Center Spaces and Spectacles
• Toorn, Roemer van, Architecture against Architecture
• Voice of the Shuttle Architecture Page

Dance

• Voice of the Shuttle Dance Page -- part of the dance and music page.

Design (Fashion, Graphic and otherwise)

• Fashion Worlds
• Historical Graphics Gallery -- huge collection of historical cartoons
• Media History Project's Comics and Graphic Arts History Links -- includes graphic & poster art links
• Visual Communication Web Links: Graphic Design and Informational Graphics
• Voice of the Shuttle's Design Page
• Voice of the Shuttle's Fashion Page

Film

• A/V Geeks
• Bibliography: Critical and Theoretical Studies in Film (Ryerson)
• Bibliography: Film Genre Analysis (Ryerson)
• Bibliography: Film History (Ryerson)
• Bibliography: Film Research
• Bibliography: Gender Issues in Film (Ryerson)
• Bright Lights Film Journal
• Canadian Journal of Film Studies
• Cinema Sites
• Cinetext: Film and Philosophy -- journal
• Donald, Ralph. Savages, Swine, & Buffoons: Hollywood's Selected Stereotypical Characterizations of the Japanese, Germans, and Italians in Films Produced During World War II
• Film and History -- journal
• Film and Television Studies Resources
• Film-philosophy
• Film Studies Glossary
• Film Studies Internet Resources
• Films with Philosophical Content (Timothy Shanahan)
• Future Movies - UK Film Reviews and Filmmaking
• Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
• Internet Movie Database
• Internet Moving Image Archive
• Kinema Club -- resources on Japanese moving image media
• MCS Film Studies Page
• MediaWeb
• Media History Project's Film History Links
• Moving History: A Guide to UK Film and Television Archives in the Public Sector
• ScreenSite: For the Study of Film and Television
• Visual Communication Web Links: Motion Pictures
• Voice of the Shuttle Film/Video Page

Gaming

Law

• Visual Persuasion Project (New York Law School)

Painting

• Artcyclopedia -- the art search engine
• Vision and Art
• Webart: A Guide to Art on the Web

Photography

• Batty, Jim. An Intentional Understanding of Photographs M.Phil. Thesis
• Global Photographers Search
• A History of Photography -- Robert Leggat
• Media History Project's Photography History Page
• MCS Photography Site -- good collection of on-line papers
• Photojournalism Resource File
• Richard Chalfen's Courses -- anthropology and visuality, mostly photography
• Visual Communication Web Links: Photography
• Voice of the Shuttle Photography Page

Sculpture

Television

• Bibliography: Broadcast Journalism
• Bibliography: Critical Studies of Television (Ryerson)
• Bibliography: Television and Gender Issues (Ryerson)
• Bibliography: Visual Journalism
• The "Grammar" of Television and Film
• MCS TV and Radio Page
• MediaWeb
• Media History Project's Television History Links
• ScreenSite: For the Study of Film and Television
• Sitcom: What it is, how it works -- neo-Aristotelean analysis
• Television Studies Internet Resources
• Visual Communication Web Links: Video and Television, Media Stereotypes
• Voice of the Shuttle Television Page

Text and Visuality

• The History of Printing - Chandra Mukerji
• Media History Project's Oral and Scribal Cultures History Page -- includes links on rock art, pictographs, heiroglyphs, etc.
• Galloway, Alexander, Fonts and Phrasing
• Visual Communication Web Links: Typography

Theatre

Video

• MediaWeb
• Visual Communication Web Links: Video and Television

Virtual Reality

• History of Virtual Reality.
• Hot Virtual Reality Sites.
• On the Net: Resources in Virtual Reality -- mostly for builders
• Second Life
• Virtual Reality Universe.

Web-based Visual Experience & Computers

• A History of Computing
• Media History Project's Computer History Links
• Visual Communication Web Links: Computers and WWW
• Voice of the Shuttle Internet Broadcast Media page

General or Comprehensive Resources, On-line Images

• Art & Architecture -- mainly from the Mediterranean Basin. Over 130,000 images
• *Artchive -- including an art critic's page, with lots of examples
• *Art History Resources on the Web
• Art on the Web
• Fine Art On-line
• Malek's Art Gallery
• *Mother of All Art History Link Pages
• *My Studios.com
• SILS Art Image Browser
• Visual Arts Data Service -- searchable
• WebMuseum -- artist's index
• World Wide Art Resources Art History Page

Pre-Historic Art

• VOS Prehistoric and Aboriginal Links

Ancient Art

• VOS Classical Links

Mediaeval Art

• VOS Mediaeval Links

Renaissance

• VOS 15th Century Links
• VOS 16th Century Links

17th Century

• VOS 17th Century Links

18th Century

• VOS 18th Century Links

19th Century

• VOS 19th Century Links

Modern & Contemporary Art

• Bill Viola Online - ArtMuseum is under revision; links will be activated soon.
• One Stop Warhol Shop - ArtMuseum is under revision; links will be activated soon.
• VOS Modern Art Links
• VOS Contemporary Art Links

Galleries & Museums: Metapages

• ArtMuseum.net
• Internet Art Resources
• Virtual Library Museums Page -- this has them all.
• Virtual Museum of Canada
• World Wide Art Resources -- Museums, Galleries

Baudrillard, Jean

• *Baudrillard on the Web
• Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Millenium
• Jean Baudrillard (from PopCulture)
• Wernick, Andrew, Baudrillard's Remainder
• S(t)imulacrum(b) (extensive Baudrillard page with annotated bibliography and text selections) (Ben Attias)
• Voice of the Shuttle Baudrillard Page

Benjamin, Walter

• Benjamin and "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (from k.i.s.s. of the panopticon)
• Walter Benjamin in the Postmodern (from New Comparison)
• Walter Benjamin (from PopCulture)

Foucault, Michel

• Foucault, What is Enlightenment?
• Michel Foucault (Ben Attias)
• Michel Foucault (Clare O'Farrell). With a large links page.
• Michel Foucault (Patrick Jennings)
• *Michel Foucault (from PopCulture)
• VOS Foucault Links

Innis, Harold

• MCS Harold Innis Links

Kroker, Arthur & Marilouise

• CTheory -- The on-line journal edited by the Krokers
• The Panic Encyclopedia

McLuhan, Marshall

• *Marshall McLuhan (from PopCulture)
• MCS Marshall McLuhan Links
• Kroker, Arthur, Digital Humanism: The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan
• The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology -- University of Toronto

Ong, Walter

• MCS Walter Ong Links

Postman, Neil

• MCS Neil Postman Links

• American Art
• Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life
• Basilisk "An online journal of film, architecture, philosophy, literature, music, and perception." Full content online.
• Bright Lights Film Journal
• Canadian Journal of Film Studies
• Cinetext: Film and Philosophy
• CTheory
• Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture
• Iconomania: Studies in Visual Culture
• Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
• In[]visible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies
• Journal of Visual Culture
• M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture
• Transcript: A Journal of Visual Culture

• European Graduate School: Media and Communications
• Film and Visual Culture Department (UC Riverside)
• Visual Culture Department (Monash University, Australia)

• Aesthetics (Elmer H. Duncan, Baylor University)
• Aesthetics (Chris Latiolais, Kalamazoo College)
• Aesthetics and Electronic Imaging (Frank Edler and Gary Downing, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha)
• Analytic Philosophy of Architecture (Saul Fisher, Mellon Foundation)
• Art and Morality: A Graduate Seminar (Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston)
• The Beautiful and the Sublime (Myles Brand and Peg Brand, Indiana University)
• Fine Arts Seminar: Feminist Aesthetics (Beth Dobie, Alfred University)
• Introduction to Philosophy of Art (Anita Silvers, San Francisco State University)
• Introduction to Philosophy of Art & Literature (James R. Hamilton, Kansas State University)
• Judy Chicago in Residence at Indiana University Foundations of Feminist Art: History, Philosophy, Context (Judy Chicago, Peg Brand and Jean Robertson, Indiana University)
• Musical Aesthetics (Jonathan Walker, Queen's University, Belfast)
• Philosophy and the Arts (Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston)
• Philosophy and Film (Casey Haskins, Purchase College SUNY)
• Philosophy of Art (Julie van Camp, Cal State Lang Branch)
• Philosophy of the Arts: From Modernism to Postmodernism (Timothy Quigley, New School for Social Research)
• Visual and Cultural Studies I (Timothy Quigley, New School for Social Research)
• Visual and Cultural Studies II (Timothy Quigley, New School for Social Research)
• Visual Communication (Paul Martin Lester)
• Visual Culture (IDS 116, Ellen Schattschneider, Stanford University)
• Western Art Since 1500 (An Online Course at the University of Southern California)

• ArtLex

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