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The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader (Paperback, New)
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The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader (Paperback, New)
Series: In Sight: Visual Culture
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The nineteenth century is central to contemporary discussions of
visual culture. This reader brings together for the first time key
writings about the period, exploring such topics as photographs,
exhibitions and advertising. Suggesting that "modernity" rather
than "modernism" is a valuable way of understanding the changes
particular to the visual culture of the time, the editors
investigate the variety of nineteenth-century images, technologies
and visual experiences, stressing in particular the very
consciousness of vision and visuality.
The reader begins with three specially written essays about
definitions of visual culture as an object of study. "Genealogies"
introduces key writings about culture from writers living in the
nineteenth century itself or from those who scrutinized its visual
culture from early in the twentieth century such as Walter Benjamin
and Siegfried Kracauer. The remainder is organized around themes:
technologies of vision, practices of display and the circulation of
images, cities and the built environment, visual representations of
the past, visual representations of categories of racial, sexual
and social differences, and spatial configurations of inside and
out, private and public. Selections include well-known authors and
new research by younger scholars to produce a well-balanced and
comprehensive collection.
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