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100	1		_91560 _aMirzoeff, Nicholas, _d1962-
245	1	2	_aAn introduction to visual culture / _cNicholas Mirzoeff.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _cc2009.
300			_a321 p. : _bill. col. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aMapping 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.
650		0	_91561 _aArt and society
650		0	_91562 _aVisual communication
650		0	_91563 _aVisual perception
650		0	_9135 _aMass media
650		0	_9145 _aCommunication and culture
650		0	_91564 _aPostmodernism
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