Visual Art Culture

Visual Art Culture

Introduction

Visual culture” has emerged of late as a term meant to encompass all human products with a pronounced visual aspect—including those that do not, as a matter of social practice, carry the imprimatur of art. The visual arts in America have related more closely to their sociopolitical context than their European or North American counterparts have traditionally done. The association between the literary avant-garde and visual artists, an association that began in the 1920s when American modernism first formally emerged in the arts as a whole, has tended to raise artists' awareness of social and ...