The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader

by Schwartz,Vanessa R.

• ISBN13: 9780415308656
• ISBN10: 0415308658
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The nineteenth century is central to contemporary discussions of visual culture. This reader brings together for the first time key writings about the period, exploring such topics as photographs, exhibitions and advertising. Suggesting that "modernity" rather than "modernism" is a valuable way of understanding the changes particular to the visual culture of the time, the editors investigate the variety of nineteenth-century images, technologies and visual experiences, stressing in particular the very consciousness of vision and visuality. The reader begins with three specially written essays about definitions of visual culture as an object of study. "Genealogies" introduces key writings about culture from writers living in the nineteenth century itself or from those who scrutinized its visual culture from early in the twentieth century such as Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer. The remainder is organized around themes: technologies of vision, practices of display and the circulation of images,cities and the built environment, visual representations of the past, visual representations of categories of racial, sexual and social differences, and spatial configurations of inside and out, private and public. Selections include well-known authors and new research by younger scholars to produce a well-balanced and comprehensive collection.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x
Notes on contributors	xiii
Permissions	xvii
Preface by the editors	xxi
PART ONE Visual Culture and Disciplinary Practices	1	(392)
Visual Culture's History: Twenty-First Century Interdisciplinarity and its Nineteenth-Century Objects	3	(12)
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Jeannene M. Przyblyski
Complex Culture	15	(11)
Margaret Cohen
Anne Higonnet
Visual Culture: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?	26	(11)
Michael L. Wilson
PART TWO Genealogies
Introduction to Part Two	35	(2)
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Jeannene M. Przyblyski
The Painter of Modern Life (1863)	37	(5)
Charles Baudelaire
Commodities and Money (1867)	42	(5)
Karl Marx
The Dream-Work (1900)	47	(4)
Sigmund Freud
The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903)	51	(5)
Georg Simmel
The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and its Origin (1928)	56	(4)
Alois Riegl
Photography (1927)	60	(3)
Siegfried Kracauer
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936)	63	(10)
Walter Benjamin
PART THREE Technology and Vision
Introduction to Part Three	71	(2)
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Jeannene M. Przyblyski
Panopticism	73	(6)
Michel Foucault
Precursors of the Photographic Portrait	79	(3)
Gisele Freund
Techniques of the Observer	82	(10)
Jonathan Crary
Panoramic Travel	92	(8)
Wolfgang Schivelbusch
`Animated Pictures': Tales of the Cinema's Forgotten Future, After 100 Years of Film	100	(17)
Tom Gunning
PART FOUR Practices of Display and the Circulation of Images
Introduction to Part Four	115	(2)
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Jeannene M. Przyblyski
The Exhibitionary Complex	117	(13)
Tony Bennett
The Bourgeoisie, Cultural Appropriation, and the Art Museum in Nineteenth-Century France	130	(15)
Daniel J. Sherman
On Visual Instruction	145	(6)
James R. Ryan
A New Era of Shopping	151	(16)
Erika Rappaport
PART FIVE Cities and the Built Environment
Introduction to Part Five	165	(2)
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Jeannene M. Przyblyski
The Ringstrasse, its Critics, and the Birth of Urban Modernism	167	(11)
Carl E. Schorske
The View From Notre-Dame	178	(16)
T. J. Clark
Word on the Streets: Ephemeral Signage in Antebellum New York	194	(11)
David Henkin
Urban Spectatorship	205	(6)
Judith Walkowitz
Electricity and Signs	211	(7)
David Nye
Picture Taking in Paradise: Los Angeles and the Creation of Regional Identity, 1880--1920	218	(17)
Jennifer Watts
PART SIX Visualizing the Past
Introduction to Part Six	233	(2)
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Jeannene M. Przyblyski
Between Memory and History: Les Lieux De Memoire	235	(3)
Pierre Nora
The Illustrated History Book: History Between Word and Image	238	(11)
Maurice Samuels
Revolutionary Sons, White Fathers and Creole Difference: Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere's Oath of the Ancestors (1822)	249	(13)
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Molding Emancipation: John Quincy Adams Ward's The Freedman and the Meaning of the Civil War	262	(14)
Kirk Savage
Staking a Claim to History	276	(13)
Joy S. Kasson
PART SEVEN Imagining Differences
Introduction to Part Seven	287	(2)
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Jeannene M. Przyblyski
The Imaginary Orient	289	(10)
Linda Nochlin
Painting the Traffic in Women	299	(14)
S. Hollis Clayson
From the Exotic to the Everyday: The Ethnographic Exhibition in Germany	313	(14)
Eric Ames
Bohemia in Doubt	327	(14)
Marcus Verhagen
PART EIGHT Inside and Out: Seeing the Personal and the Political
Introduction to Part Eight	339	(2)
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Jeannene M. Przyblyski
Banners and Banner-Making	341	(7)
Lisa Tickner
The Portiere and the Personification of Urban Observation	348	(10)
Sharon Marcus
``Baby's Picture is Always Treasured'': Eugenics and the Reproduction of Whiteness in the Family Photograph Album	358	(13)
Shawn Michelle Smith
Psychologie Nouvelle	371	(22)
Debora L. Silverman
Index	393