An introduction to visual culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

By:

Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: London : Routledge, 2009.Edition: 2. edDescription: xxii, 321 s. : illISBN:

041532758X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415327589 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415327598 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415327596 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

306.4 22

LOC classification:

N 72 M677i 2009

Contents:

Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Sight Becomes Vision:Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters 3. Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture 4. Panoptic Modernity 5. Imperial Transcultures: from Kongo to Congo 6. Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences 7. Inventing the West 8. Decolonizing Vision 9. Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0 10. The Death of 'The Death of Photography' 11. Celebrity: from Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV 12. Watching War / From al-Haytham to Perspective 2. '1492'.

Summary: Tracing the history and theory of visual culture, from painting to the World Wide Web, this book asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life. It explores a wide range of visual forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, television, cinema, Virtual Reality, and the internet.

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Tracing the history and theory of visual culture, from painting to the World Wide Web, this book asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life. It explores a wide range of visual forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, television, cinema, Virtual Reality, and the internet.

Previous ed.: 1999.

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