Title: Practices of looking : an introduction to visual culture /
Authors: Sturken, Marita, 1957-; Cartwright, Lisa, 1959-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Art and society.; Culture.; Visual perception.; Visual communication.; Popular culture.; Communication and culture.
Contents: Images, power, and politics -- Viewers making meaning -- Modernity : spectatorship, power, and knowledge -- Realism and perspective : from Renaissance painting to digital media -- Visual technologies, image reproduction, and the copy -- Media in everyday life -- Advertising, consumer cultures and desire -- Postmodernism, Indie media and popular culture -- Scientific looking, looking at science -- The global flow of visual culture.