Rawlinson, Mark

American visual culture / Mark Rawlinson. - Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009. - xi, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Visualizing various American landscapes -- Cultural anxieties I: all consuming culture -- Cultural anxieties II: a case of black and white -- From a comfortable distance: visual culture and war -- Crime and punishment: mug shots and crime scenes -- Visualizing sex in america -- The trouble with kitsch : highs and lows in American art and visual culture.

9781845202170 (pbk.) 1845202171 (pbk.)

2009017555


Arts, American.
Arts and society--United States.
Visual communication.
National characteristics, American, in art.


USA.

700.103 RAW