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An introduction to visual culture /

Contributor(s): Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2009Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xxii, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 041532758X (hardback : alk. paper); 9780415327589:; 9780415327589 (hardback : alk. paper); 0415327598 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780415327596 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Art | Art and society | Visual communication in art | Visual communication | Visual perception | Mass media | Communication and culture | PostmodernismDDC classification: 700.103
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Sight Becomes Vision:Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters 3. Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture 4. Panoptic Modernity 5. Imperial Transcultures: from Kongo to Congo 6. Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences 7. Inventing the West 8. Decolonizing Vision 9. Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0 10. The Death of 'The Death of Photography' 11. Celebrity: from Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV 12. Watching War / From al-Haytham to Perspective 2. '1492'.
Summary: This is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of visual culture from painting to the television screen. Mirzoeff argues that the visual is replacing the linguistic as our primary means of communicating.
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Includes index.

Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Sight Becomes Vision:Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters 3. Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture 4. Panoptic Modernity 5. Imperial Transcultures: from Kongo to Congo 6. Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences 7. Inventing the West 8. Decolonizing Vision 9. Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0 10. The Death of 'The Death of Photography' 11. Celebrity: from Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV 12. Watching War / From al-Haytham to Perspective 2. '1492'.

This is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of visual culture from painting to the television screen. Mirzoeff argues that the visual is replacing the linguistic as our primary means of communicating.

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