An introduction to visual culture
By: Nicholas Mirzoeff.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Art and society; Visual communication; Visual perception; Mass media; Communication and culture; Postmodernism
Other titles: Visual culture
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: what is visual culture?; title: Picture definition: line, color, vision; title: The age of photography (1839-1982); title: Virtuality: from virtual antiquity to the pixel zone; title: Transculture: from Kongo to the Congo; title: Seeing sex; title: First contact: from Independence Day to 1492 and Millennium; title: Diana's death: gender, photography and the inauguration of global visual culture.