Visual Culture, History And Philosophy Inquire

As human society entered the post-industrial era,especially in the current "information age, exchanges in the form of people, production and way of receiving information and people's thinking all have a huge differences than ever before. The main socio-cultural current carrier of culture is the "image ",which is different from the "artifacts"and the"text ",both of the two were carriers of culture in history. In nowadays,the major paradigm which carries the social cuture is "image",in other words,we have entered the "Image Age". Visual image owns its natural advantages, combines with replication technology and extensive application of network technology, it quickly occupied the center stage of culture.Visual images greatly broaden people's horizons, enrich people's cultural life and improve people's aesthetic ability.It is an unprecedented scale "Enlightenment. " to a certain extent.However, visual culture as a cultural patterns of the mainstream of contemporary society,it is not just relay on the coincidence between imaging technology and the consumer society. Actually,it has solid historical foundation in the long river of human cultural development. "Visual" "Visibility",a range of philosophical proposition triggered by the visual occupies an important position in the whole history of human civilization. Otherwise, from anthropology, as a mainstream cultural pattern visual culture has a long-term. Visual culture makes a significant contribution in recording human civilization, and promoting the development of human society forward, even since the advent of the abstract text,it still records and reflects the cultural process of human society as a kind of art.It seems that the contemporary visual culture is an expansion of imaging technology and electronic media technology,is an expulsion to traditional cultural forms.In fact,from a historical, philosophical logic, this "squeeze"and"occupation"is actually a "return " as a long history of as a kind of cultural pattern.