Writing Visual Histories

Writing Visual Histories by Florence Grant

What can visual artifacts tell us about the past? How can we interpret them rigorously, weaving their formal and material qualities into rich social contexts to reach wider historical conclusions? Unfolding key historiographical and methodological issues, Writing Visual Histories equips students to answer these questions, showing visual analysis to be a key skill in historical research. A multifaceted structure makes this a practical guide for writing and reflecting on visual histories. A first section includes six case studies -- on topics ranging from medieval heraldry to Life magazine. These examples are followed by an exploration of essential concepts that inform historical thinking about visual matters, a treatment of disciplinary practices, and discussion of the practicalities (such as accessing museum collections and organising permissions) that scholars working with visual sources have to navigate. This book is an invaluable tool kit for opening up a historical understanding of visual phenomena and practices of looking, and for writing that takes an integrated approach to studies of the past.

The six chapters offer case-studies from the fourteenth to the twentieth-century in Britain, Europe and the United States, and collectively present visual history as a lively interdisciplinary mode of enquiryWith its additional sections on concepts, practices and practicalities, the volume exceeds the conventional textbook – making it invaluable as a student handbook or toolkit. * Viccy Coltman, Professor of eighteenth-century History of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK *

Florence Grant holds a PhD in History from King's College London and is currently an independent writer and editor based in Western North Carolina, USA Ludmilla Jordanova is Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture at Durham University, UK. She is also the author of History in Practice, 3rd Edition (Bloomsbury, 2019)

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ISBN 13	9781350023451
ISBN 10	1350023450
Title	Writing Visual Histories
Author	Florence Grant
Series	Writing History
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2020-11-12
Number of pages	256
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