TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mirzoeff,Nicholas
TI  - An introduction to visual culture
SN  - 041532758X (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - N 72  M677i 2009
U1  - 306.4 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Art and society
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - Visual perception
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Communication and culture
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Arte y sociedad
KW  - Postmodernismo
KW  - Comunicación visual
N1  - 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'; Previous ed.: 1999
N2  - 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.
ER  -