An introduction to visual culture
By: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780415327589; 9780415327596
Subjects: Art and society; Communication and culture; Postmodernism; Mass media; Visual perception; Visual communication
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Global Visual Cultures : Paradox and Comparison; title: Sight becomes Vision : From al-Haytham to Perspective; title: "1492" : Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters; title: Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture; title: Panoptic Modernity; title: Imperial Transcultures : From Kongo to Congo; title: Sexuality Disrupts : Measuring the Silences; title: Inventing the West; title: Decolonizing Visions; title: Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0; title: The Death of the Death of Photography; title: Celebrity : From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV; title: Watching War.