An Introduction to Visual Culture

by Mirzoeff; Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780415327596
• ISBN10: 0415327598
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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
Sight becomes Vision: From al-Haytham to Perspective	p. 21
Keyword Culture as Transculture	p. 41
"1492": Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters	p. 45
Breakout Image The Ambassadors: Slavery and the Gaze	p. 63
Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture	p. 68
Keyword Visuality	p. 89
Panoptic Modernity	p. 94
Keyword Modernity	p. 113
Breakout Image Photography and Death	p. 119
Imperial Transcultures: From Kongo to Congo	p. 127
Keyword Race	p. 147
Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences	p. 153
Keyword The Fetish and the Gaze	p. 169
Inventing the West	p. 176
Keyword Empire and the State of Emergency	p. 192
Decolonizing Visions	p. 197
Keyword Networks	p. 218
Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0	p. 224
Breakout Image Blade Runner	p. 245
The Death of the Death of Photography	p. 250
Keyword Spectacle and Surveillance	p. 264
Celebrity: From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV	p. 271
Breakout Image The Abu Ghraib Photographs	p. 287
Watching War	p. 292
Index	p. 310
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