Nicholas Mirzoeff

An Introduction to Visual Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Tracing the history and theory of visual culture, from painting to the World Wide Web, An Introduction to Visual Culture asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU43661
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780415327596
• ISBN-10: 0415327598
• Artikelnr.: 25664004

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He is author and editor of several books including Watching Babylon (1995) and The Visual Culture Reader, also now in its second edition (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. Sight Becomes Vision: From al-Haytham to Perspective 2. '1492': Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters 3. Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture 4. Panoptic Modernity 5. Imperial Transcultures: From Kongo to Congo 6. Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences 7. Inventing the West 8. Decolonizing Vision 9. Discrete States: Digital Worlds From the Difference Engine to Web 2.0 10. The Death of 'The Death of Photography' 11. Celebrity: From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV 12. Watching War.

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Introduction Visualization 1: Perspective, Visuality and the Way of Seeing
Part 1. Foundational 1.Acknowledgement and Groundwork 2. Indigenous Ways of
Seeing 3. In Slavery's Wake 4.Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance
5.Unfixing the Gaze Visualization 2: The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein
Visualization 3: The Decisive Moment and The Limits of Looking Part 2.
Tactics of Visual Activism 6. Removal 7.Restitution 8. Repair and
Reparations Visualization 4: Power Figures: Minkisi Nkondi Part 3.
Catastrophe 9. Nakba 10. The Climate {R}evolution 11. Plague and War
Visualization 5: Taking a Knee

Rezensionen

"Nicholas Mirzoeff's new synthesis of visual culture study is a tour-de-force comparative reading that begins where most comprehensive books in the field leave off, with globalization. If, as Mirzoeff tells us in his scintillating style, visuality has alienated vision from its users, then this lively and impassioned account is certain to put readers right at the heart of the problem with a spectrum of examples through which to work it through." - Lisa Cartwright, Professor of Communication and Science Studies, University of California at San Diego, USA

"In this updated and expanded second edition of his provocative An Introduction to Visual Culture, Nicholas Mirzoeff takes us on a momentous journey through visual culture to our own network society. As a careful historian and dextrous theorist, by interweaving modalities of visuality, the author tracks a path - sometimes utopian, more often dystopian - in search of a possibility just beyond our grasp: the dream of transculture as the sign of our democratic politics. For Mirzoeff, such a journey is only feasible by way of the interdisciplinary field of Visual Culture Studies where visual culture is understood as the study of 'the place of visuality in the division of the sensible'. He is right." - Marquard Smith, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Visual Culture, and Principal Lecturer in Visual Culture Studies, University of Westminster, London, UK