An introduction to visual culture /
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
An introduction to visual culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff. - 2nd ed. - London ; New York : Routledge, c2009. - 321 p. : ill. col. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Global visual cultures: paradox and comparison --
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 we 2.0 --
10. The death of the Death of photography --
11. Celebrity: from imperial monarchy to reality TV --
12. Watching war.
Mapping a global history and theory of visual culture, it asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life. It has been adapted to match the challenges of interpreting globalization.
9780415327596
Art and society
Visual communication
Visual perception
Mass media
Communication and culture
Postmodernism
701
An introduction to visual culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff. - 2nd ed. - London ; New York : Routledge, c2009. - 321 p. : ill. col. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Global visual cultures: paradox and comparison --
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 we 2.0 --
10. The death of the Death of photography --
11. Celebrity: from imperial monarchy to reality TV --
12. Watching war.
Mapping a global history and theory of visual culture, it asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life. It has been adapted to match the challenges of interpreting globalization.
9780415327596
Art and society
Visual communication
Visual perception
Mass media
Communication and culture
Postmodernism
701