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An introduction to visual culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and society.
- Visual communication.
- Visual perception.
- Mass media.
- Communication and culture.
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 321 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Contents:
- Global Visual Cultures : Paradox and Comparison
- Sight becomes Vision : From al-Haytham to Perspective
- "1492" : Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters
- Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture
- Panoptic Modernity
- Imperial Transcultures : From Kongo to Congo
- Sexuality Disrupts : Measuring the Silences
- Inventing the West
- Decolonizing Visions
- Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0
- The Death of the Death of Photography
- Celebrity : From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV
- Watching War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415327589
- 041532758X
- 9780415327596
- 0415327598
- OCLC:
- 212848869
- Publisher Number:
- 99937299873
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