An Introduction to Visual Culture

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By: Nicholas Mirzoeff

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An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide-ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture.

Mapping a global history and theory of visual culture, An Introduction to Visual Culture asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life. This new, completely updated second edition has been adapted to match the challenges of interpreting globalization since the publication of the first edition a decade ago.

Improved text design and colour images throughout make it an even more valuable teaching tool. Brand new features in the second edition include Key Image studies from Holbeina (TM)s The Ambassadors, to Blade Runner and the Abu Ghraib atrocities; and a Key Words section in each chapter, discussing vital critical terms and the debates that surround them.

In this innovative, thoroughly revised and extended edition, Nicholas Mirzoeff explores:

An extensive range of visual forms from painting, sculpture, and photography to television, cinema, and the Internet.

The centrality of a racea (TM) and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and the body in shaping visual culture.

The importance of images of natural disaster and conflict, such as Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing war in Iraq.

List of illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. xiii
Illustration acknowledgments	p. xvi
Introduction: Global Visual Cultures: Paradox and Comparison	p. 1
Keyword The Division of the Sensible	p. 17
Sight becomes Vision: From al-Haytham to Perspective	p. 21
Keyword Culture as Transculture	p. 41
"1492": Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters	p. 45
Breakout Image The Ambassadors: Slavery and the Gaze	p. 63
Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture	p. 68
Keyword Visuality	p. 89
Panoptic Modernity	p. 94
Keyword Modernity	p. 113
Breakout Image Photography and Death	p. 119
Imperial Transcultures: From Kongo to Congo	p. 127
Keyword Race	p. 147
Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences	p. 153
Keyword The Fetish and the Gaze	p. 169
Inventing the West	p. 176
Keyword Empire and the State of Emergency	p. 192
Decolonizing Visions	p. 197
Keyword Networks	p. 218
Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0	p. 224
Breakout Image Blade Runner	p. 245
The Death of the Death of Photography	p. 250
Keyword Spectacle and Surveillance	p. 264
Celebrity: From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV	p. 271
Breakout Image The Abu Ghraib Photographs	p. 287
Watching War	p. 292
Index	p. 310
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ISBN: 9780415327596
ISBN-10: 0415327598
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 330
Published: 26th May 2009
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.3 x 15.2 x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.76
Edition Number: 2
Edition Type: New edition