Visual Culture Studies

We are in an age which the visual culture is coming, the age is arrived along with the revoluctionary changes of the modern medium. In this age, the main cause of the culture is "picture" or "image", "the world is hold by image". The visual culture' s coming is a huge challenge for the traditional printing culture, "The visual turn" or "the image turn" come from it has changed the living conditions of human beings: The sense of theory based on language is replaced by the sense of sensibility gradually, it is a trend that image becomes the tool of the symbol rather than language.This trend that the contemporary culture is token for the visual culture causes a series of changes in the culture, the whole society come into an age of the mass culture, People pay more attention to the body, open their appetites out, satisfy their consumptions etc. the pattern of the visual culture strongly manifests the general logic of the appetite, power, consumption and the mass tastes.In the age of visual culture , the literature presents a new visage that spirit depth and taste inhesion are missing because of the pressure of image, and sinks into the marginal circumstance , This requests us to match and complement between words and images impersonally .To...