A history of visual culture : western civilisation from the 18th to the 21st century / edited by Jane Kromm, Susan Benforado Bakewell.

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TextPublication details: Oxford : Berg, 2010.Description: vii, 403 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

1845204921 (pbk.)
9781845204921 (pbk.)

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700.103 KRO

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A History of Visual Culture is a history of ideas. The recent explosion of interest in visual culture suggests the phenomenon is very recent. 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 industrialisation and colonialism to today's globalised 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; 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

General Introduction (p. 1)
Part 1 Revolt and Revolution
Introduction (p. 14)
1 The Politics of Visibility in Revolutionary France: Projecting on the Streets (p. 18)
2 Nineteenth-Century Revolutions and Strategies of Visual Persuasion (p. 30)
3 Socialist Movements and the Development of the Political Poster (p. 42)
4 Avant-Garde Art and the Culture of Protest: The Use-Value of Iconoclasm (p. 54)
Part 2 Science and Empiricism
Introduction (p. 68)
5 To Collect Is to Quantity and Describe: Visual Practices in the Development of Modern Science (p. 73)
6 The Transparent Body: Biocultures of Evolution, Eugenics, and Scientific Racism (p. 89)
7 Biology and Crime: Degeneracy and the Visual Trace (p. 104)
8 Visual Models and Scientific Breakthroughs: The Virus and the Geodesic Dome: Pattern, Production, Abstraction, and the Ready-Made Model (p. 117)
Part 3 Gaze and Spectacle
Introduction (p. 132)
9 Gaze, Body, and Sexuality: Modern Rituals of Looking and Being Looked At (p. 136)
10 The Flâneur/Flâneuse Phenomenon (p. 147)
11 Gaze and Spectacle in the Calibration of Class and Gender: Visual Culture in Vienna (p. 157)
12 The Stigmata of Abjection: Degenerate Limbs, Hysterical Skin, and the Tattooed Body (p. 169)
Part 4 Acquisition, Display, and Desire
Introduction (p. 186)
13 To the Arcade: The World of the Shop and the Store (p. 190)
14 "To See Is to Know:" Visual Knowledge at the International Expositions (p. 200)
15 Changing Museum Spaces: From the Prado to the Guggenheim Bilbao (p. 211)
16 Design for Display Culture: Domestic Engineering to Design Research (p. 224)
Part 5 Conquest, Colonialism, and Globalization
Introduction (p. 238)
17 Orientalism and Its Visual Regimes: Lovis Corinth and Imperialism in the Art of the Kaiserreich (p. 243)
18 Marketing the Slave Trade: Slavery, Photography, and Emancipation: Time and Freedom in 'The Life of the Picture' (p. 255)
19 Cultures of Confiscation: The Collection, Appropriation, and Destruction of South Asian Art (p. 267)
20 Trading Cultures: The Boundary Issues of Globalization (p. 281)
Part 6 Image and Reality
Introduction (p. 292)
21 Multiples and Reproductions: Prints and Photographs in Nineteenth-Century England-Visual Communities, Cultures, and Class (p. 296)
22 Inventing the Mise-en-Scène: German Expressionism and the Silent Film Set (p. 309)
23 The Reality of the Abstract Image: Rethinking Spirituality in Abstraction (p. 319)
Part 7 Media and Visual Technologies
Introduction (p. 332)
24 Now You See It: Disinformation and Disorientation on the Internet (p. 337)
25 Carnival Mirrors: The Hermetic World of the Music Video (p. 346)
26 Digital Self-Fashioning in Cyberspace: The New Digital Self-Portrait (p. 356)
27 Feats of Simulation and the World of Video Games: Art, Cinema, and Interactivity (p. 367)
28 What You See Is What You Get, or Reality Is What You Take from It (p. 376)
Contributors (p. 385)
List of Illustrations (p. 389)
Selected Bibliography (p. 395)
Index (p. 399)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Editors: Jane Kromm is Professor of Art History at Purchase College, State University of New York and author of The Art of Frenzy: Public Madness in the Visual Culture of Europe, 1500-1850. Susan Benforado Bakewell is an independent curator and scholar, and has taught at the University of Texas, Arlington and Southern Methodist University. She is co-editor of Voices in New Mexico Art.