An introduction to visual culture

Mirzoeff, Nicholas 1962- (Author).

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ISBN: 9780415327589 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780415327596 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 041532758X (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0415327598 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxii, 321 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction. Global Visual Cultures: Paradox and Comparison Keyword: The Division of the SEnisbile -- Ch. 1. Sight becomes Vision: From al-Haytham to Perspective -- Keyword. Culture as Transculture -- Ch. 2. "1492": Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters -- Breakout Image. The Ambassadors: Slavery and the Gaze -- Ch. 3. Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture -- Keyword. Visulity -- Ch. 4. Panoptic Modernity -- Keyword. Modernity -- Breakout Image. Photography and Death -- Ch. 5. Imperial Transcultures: from Kongo to Congo -- Keyword. Race -- Ch. 6. Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences -- Keyword. The Fetish and the Gaze -- Ch. 7. Inventing the West -- Keyword. Empire and the State of Emergency -- Ch. 8. Decolonizing Vision -- Keyword. Networks -- Ch. 9. Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0 -- Breakout Image. Blade Runner -- Ch. 10. The Death of "The Death of Photography" -- Keyword. Spectacle and Surveillance -- Ch. 11. Celebrity: from Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV -- Breakout Image. The Abu Ghraib Photographs -- Ch. 12. Watching War.