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An introduction to visual culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

By: Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xi, 274 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415327598; 041532758X; 9780415327596 ; 9780415327596 .Other title: Visual culture.Subject(s): Visual sociology | Popular culture | Visual communication | Mass media | Art and society | PostmodernismDDC classification: 306
Contents:
Introduction: global visual cultures: paradox and comparison -- Sight becomes vision: From al-haytham to perspective -- "1492": explusions, expropriations, encounters -- Slavery, modernity and visual culture -- Panoptic modernity -- Imperial transcultures: From Kongo to Congo -- Sexuality disrupts: Measuring the silences -- Inventing the west -- Decolonizing visions -- Discrete states: digital worlds from the difference engine to web 2.0 -- The death of the death of photography -- Celebrity: from imperial monarchy to reality TV -- Watching war.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide-ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture.

Mapping a global history and theory of visual culture, An Introduction to Visual Culture asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life. This new, completely updated second edition has been adapted to match the challenges of interpreting globalization since the publication of the first edition a decade ago.

Improved text design and colour images throughout make it an even more valuable teaching tool. Brand new features in the second edition include Key Image studies from Holbein's The Ambassadors, to Blade Runner and the Abu Ghraib atrocities; and a Key Words section in each chapter, discussing vital critical terms and the debates that surround them.

In this innovative, thoroughly revised and extended edition, Nicholas Mirzoeff explores:

an extensive range of visual forms from painting, sculpture, and photography to television, cinema, and the Internet the centrality of 'race' and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and the body in shaping visual culture the importance of images of natural disaster and conflict, such as Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing war in Iraq.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: global visual cultures: paradox and comparison -- Sight becomes vision: From al-haytham to perspective -- "1492": explusions, expropriations, encounters -- Slavery, modernity and visual culture -- Panoptic modernity -- Imperial transcultures: From Kongo to Congo -- Sexuality disrupts: Measuring the silences -- Inventing the west -- Decolonizing visions -- Discrete states: digital worlds from the difference engine to web 2.0 -- The death of the death of photography -- Celebrity: from imperial monarchy to reality TV -- Watching war.

CIT Module DESI 6009 - Core reading.

CIT Module ARTS 7028 - Core reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of illustrations (p. vii)
  • Preface (p. xiii)
  • Illustration acknowledgments (p. xvi)
  • Introduction: Global Visual Cultures: Paradox and Comparison (p. 1)
  • Keyword The Division of the Sensible (p. 17)
  • Chapter 1 Sight becomes Vision: From al-Haytham to Perspective (p. 21)
  • Keyword Culture as Transculture (p. 41)
  • Chapter 2 "1492": Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters (p. 45)
  • Breakout Image The Ambassadors: Slavery and the Gaze (p. 63)
  • Chapter 3 Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture (p. 68)
  • Keyword Visuality (p. 89)
  • Chapter 4 Panoptic Modernity (p. 94)
  • Keyword Modernity (p. 113)
  • Breakout Image Photography and Death (p. 119)
  • Chapter 5 Imperial Transcultures: From Kongo to Congo (p. 127)
  • Keyword Race (p. 147)
  • Chapter 6 Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences (p. 153)
  • Keyword The Fetish and the Gaze (p. 169)
  • Chapter 7 Inventing the West (p. 176)
  • Keyword Empire and the State of Emergency (p. 192)
  • Chapter 8 Decolonizing Visions (p. 197)
  • Keyword Networks (p. 218)
  • Chapter 9 Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0 (p. 224)
  • Breakout Image Blade Runner (p. 245)
  • Chapter 10 The Death of the Death of Photography (p. 250)
  • Keyword Spectacle and Surveillance (p. 264)
  • Chapter 11 Celebrity: From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV (p. 271)
  • Breakout Image The Abu Ghraib Photographs (p. 287)
  • Chapter 12 Watching War (p. 292)
  • Index (p. 310)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is author and editor of many books including Watching Babylon (1995) and The Visual Culture Reader (2002).