A history of visual culture : Western civilization from the 18th to the 21st century / edited by Jane Kromm and Susan Benforado Bakewell.
Kromm, Jane, 1949-; Bakewell, Susan Benforado.
2010
NX180.S6 H57 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
A history of visual culture : Western civilization from the 18th to the 21st century / edited by Jane Kromm and Susan Benforado Bakewell.
Edition
English ed.
ISBN
9781845204921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1845204921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781845204938 (alk. paper)
184520493X (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Oxford [England] ; New York : Berg, 2010.
Language
English
Description
vii, 403 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
NX180.S6 H57 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
700.1/03
Summary
"A History of Visual Culture is a history of ideas. The recent explosion of interest in visual culture suggests that the phenomenon is very new. But visual culture has a history. Knowledge began to be systematically grounded in observation and display from the Enlightenment. Since then, from the age of industrialization and colonialism to roday's globalized world, visual culture has continued to shape our ways of thinking and of interpreting the world." "Carefully structured to cover a wide history and geography, A History of Visual Culture is divided into themed sections - Revolt and Revolution; Science and Empiricism; Gaze and Spectacle; Acquisition, Display, and Desire; Conquest, Colonialism, and Globalization; Image and Reality; and Media and Visual Technologies. Each section presents a carefully selected range of case studies from across the last 250 years, designed to illustrate how all kinds of visual media have shaped our technology, aesthetics, politics and culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Kromm, Jane, 1949-
Bakewell, Susan Benforado.
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1 The Politics of Visibility in Revolutionary France: Projecting on the Streets / Helen Weston
2 Nineteenth-Century Revolutions and Strategies of Visual Persuasion / Richard Taws
3 Socialist Movements and the Development of the Political Poster Elizabeth Guffey
4 Avant-Garde Art and the Culture of Protest: The Use-Value of Iconoclasm / Jelena Stojanovic
Part 2 Science and Empiricism
5 To Collect Is to Quantity and Describe: Visual Practices in the Development of Modern Science / Jane Kromm
6 The Transparent Body: Biocultures of Evolution, Eugenics, and Scientific Racism / Fae Brauer
7 Biology and Crime: Degeneracy and the Visual Trace / Heather McPherson
8 Visual Models and Scientific Breakthroughs: The Virus and the Geodesic Dome: Pattern, Production, Abstraction, and the Ready-Made Model / Nancy Anderson
Part 3 Gaze and Spectacle
9 Gaze, Body, and Sexuality: Modern Rituals of Looking and Being Looked At / Temma Balducci
10 The Flâneur-Flâneuse Phenomenon / Jane Kromm
11 Gaze and Spectacle in the Calibration of Class and Gender: Visual Culture in Vienna / Elana Shapira
12 The Stigmata of Abjection: Degenerate Limbs, Hysterical Skin, and the Tattooed Body / Fae Brauer

Part 4 Acquisition, Display, and Desire
13 To the Arcade: The World of the Shop and the Store / Jane Kromm
14 "To See Is to Know:" Visual Knowledge at the International Expositions / Amy F. Ogata
15 Changing Museum Spaces: From the Prado to the Guggenheim Bilbao / Susan Benforado Bakewell
16 Design for Display Culture: Domestic Engineering to Design Research / Michael J. Golec
Part 5 Conquest, Colonialism, and Globalization
17 Orientalism and Its Visual Regimes: Lovis Corinth and Imperialism in the Art of the Kaiserreich / Matthew Potter
18 Marketing the Slave Trade: Slavery, Photography, and Emancipation: Time and Freedom in 'The Life of the Picture' / Marcus Wood
19 Cultures of Confiscation: The Collection, Appropriation, and Destruction of South Asian Art / Kimberly Masteller
20 Trading Cultures: The Boundary Issues of Globalization Nada Shabout
Part 6 Image and Reality
21 Multiples and Reproductions: Prints and Photographs in Nineteenth-Century England-Visual Communities, Cultures, and Class / Joy Sperling
22 Inventing the Mise-en-Scène: German Expressionism and the Silent Film Set / Jane Kromm
23 The Reality of the Abstract Image: Rethinking Spirituality in Abstraction / Sarah Warren
Part 7 Media and Visual Technologies
24 Now You See It: Disinformation and Disorientation on the Internet / Brenda DeMartini-Squires
25 Carnival Mirrors: The Hermetic World of the Music Video / M. Kathryn Shields
26 Digital Self-Fashioning in Cyberspace: The New Digital Self-Portrait / Matt Ferranto
27 Feats of Simulation and the World of Video Games: Art, Cinema, and Interactivity / Martin A. Danahay
28 What You See Is What You Get, or Reality Is What You Take from It / Chris Kaczmarek

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