The Birmingham School And The Study Of Visual Culture

The study of visual culture itself is full of uncertainty,especially for its research object,research paradigm and knowledge pedigree.The main reason for this is controversial in the history of art,many disciplines such as philosophy,aesthetics,sociology,and found the importance of visual culture,and to discipline their basis to the field of exploration.The result is that the field is filled with a variety of knowledge systems.Bermingham school pay attention to "visual effects" of everyday life and culture,in sub culture,media,feminism and other fields of "Visual culture" has been widely covered;but these scholars do not have visual culture as an independent object of study to look at.In their vision,vision has always been a factor in the overall cultural framework,but this factor is becoming more and more important with the development of the times.This would give us a new idea:to clean up the knowledge field of visual culture,it is best to find out how to generate the "culture" as the framework of visual culture,what is the knowledge and the internal logic.This paper began to comb from the theoretical origin of the Bermingham school and through intensive reading of the text,discusses the relationship between Bermingham school and the western Marx doctrine and related schools of thought;Found the historical inevitability on "why" Bermingham school been like this from the tradition of analytic philosophy of United Kingdom;finally the research results are used in the study of visual culture,internal logic try to push the study of visual culture derived.