An Introduction to Visual Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415327589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 330 str.

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction  1. Sight Becomes Vision: From al-Haytham to Perspective  2. '1492': 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.