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Published: 26th May 2009
ISBN: 9780415327596
Number Of Pages: 330
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:
| 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): 24.13 x 15.88
x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.77
Edition Number: 2
Edition Type: New edition
