Introduction to Visual Culture

Name: Introduction to Visual Culture
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ISBN: 9780415327596

ISBN-10: 0415327598

ISBN-13: 9780415327596

Edition: 2nd 2009 (Revised)

Authors: MIRZOEFF

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This is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of visual culture from painting to the television screen. Mirzoeff argues that the visual is replacing the linguistic as our primary means of communicating.

Book details

List price: $59.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.13" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Illustration acknowledgments


Introduction: Global Visual Cultures: Paradox and Comparison


Keyword The Division of the Sensible



Sight becomes Vision: From al-Haytham to Perspective


Keyword Culture as Transculture



"1492": Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters


Breakout Image The Ambassadors: Slavery and the Gaze



Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture


Keyword Visuality



Panoptic Modernity


Keyword Modernity


Breakout Image Photography and Death



Imperial Transcultures: From Kongo to Congo


Keyword Race



Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences


Keyword The Fetish and the Gaze



Inventing the West


Keyword Empire and the State of Emergency



Decolonizing Visions


Keyword Networks



Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0


Breakout Image Blade Runner



The Death of the Death of Photography


Keyword Spectacle and Surveillance



Celebrity: From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV


Breakout Image The Abu Ghraib Photographs



Watching War


Index