Visual Culture and Tourism

by Crouch, David; Lübbren, Nina

• ISBN13: 9781859735886
• ISBN10: 1859735886
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

From postcards and paintings to photography and film, tourism and visual culture have a long-standing history of mutual entanglement. For centuries art has inspired many an intrepid traveller, and tourism provides an insatiable market for indigenous art, authentic or otherwise. This book explores the complex association between tourism and visual culture throughout history and across cultures. How has tourism been linked to images of colonial expansion? Why are we so intrigued by lost places, such as Tutankhamun's tomb or Machu Picchu, South Americas lost city of the Incas? What is the relationship between art, tourism and landscape preference? What role did commercial tourist photographers play in the imagination of Victorian Britain? Drawing upon examples from across the globe, this exciting new contribution to a popular subject illustrates how tourism and visual culture intersect with one another and in the process become contested ground.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(22)
Part I: Sites and Images
1 From 'Women's Lib.' to 'Palestinian Women' : The Politics of Picture Postcards in Palestine/Israel
Annelies Moors	23	(18)
2 Algeria In and Out of the Frame: Visuality and Cultural Tourism in the Nineteenth Century
Deborah Cherry	41	(18)
3 Henri Chapu's Provincial Monuments to Jean-François Millet: Legitimizing the Peasant-Painter through Tourism
Bradley Fratello	59	(16)
4 Open-Air Museums and the Tourist Gaze
Stephen F. Mills	75	(16)
5 British Photographers and Tourism in the Nineteenth Century: Three Case Studies
Robin Lenman	91	(18)
6 Artists as Drivers of the Tour Bus: Landscape Painting as a Spur to Tourism
Peter Howard	109	(16)
7 North to South: Paradigm Shifts in European Art and Tourism, 1880-1920
Nina Lübbren	125	(22)
8 Picture Essay: Souvenir Bangkok
Davide Deriu	147	(10)
Part II: Practices and Encounters
9 Unlosing Lost Places: Image Making, Tourism and the Return to Terra Cognita
Roger Balm and Briavel Holcomb	157	(18)
10 Holocaust Tourism: Being There, Looking Back and the Ethics of Spatial Memory
Griselda Pollock	175	(16)
11 Joe's Bar, Douglas, Isle of Man: Photographic Representations of Holidaymakers in the 1950’s
Doug Sandle	191	(14)
12 Straight Ways and Loss: The Tourist Encounter with Woodlands and Forests
Simon Evans and Martin Spaul	205	(18)
13 tourist:pioneer:hybrid: London Bridge, the Mirage in the Arizona Desert
Daniel Jewesbury	223	(18)
14 Frightening and Familiar: David Lynch's Twin Peaks and the North American Suburb
Renée Tobe	241	(18)
15 Mountains and Landscapes: Towards Embodied Visualities
Eeva Jokinen and Soile Veijola	259	(20)
Index	279