A History of Visual Culture - Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century (Hardcover, English)

"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 them, from the age of industrialization and colonialism to today'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; 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.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	February 2010
Editors:	Jane Kromm • Susan Benforado Bakewell
Dimensions:	244 x 189 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	416
Edition:	English
ISBN-13:	978-1-84520-493-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN:	1-84520-493-X
Barcode:	9781845204938

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