Vista, vision and visual consumption from the age of enlightenment

Title: Vista, vision and visual consumption from the age of enlightenment
Creator: de Burgh-Woodman, Helene; Brace-Govan, Janice
Relation: Marketing Theory Vol. 10, Issue 2, p. 173-191
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470593110366908
Publisher: Sage Publications
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: Drawing on previous discussions of visual consumption in marketing, this paper uses two historical examples to examine visuality and the enduring effect of the Age of Enlightenment on visual consumption. Drawing on the French garden and the philosophical trope of the Molyneux Man, the manner in which the consumption experience is mediated and narrated through vision is considered. It is argued that cultural perspective and individual perception work in constant dialogue to produce an individual’s ability to consume, or ‘take in’, visual signs inherent to our world. From the Enlightenment, this interaction has characterized the contemporary consumer’s world, but, importantly for marketing communications, this becomes more significant in today’s burgeoning visual consumption experiences.
Subject: cultural perspective; individual perception; marketing communications; vision; vista; visual consumption
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/928886
Identifier: uon:10474
Identifier: ISSN:1470-5931
Language: eng
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