The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader

Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski

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Routledge
01 July 2004

The Arts: General & Reference; Cultural studies

Series: In Sight: Visual Culture

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 imaes, 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 organised 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 catagories of racial, sexual and social differences, and spatial configurations of inside

Edited by: Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 975g
ISBN: 9780415308656
ISBN 10: 0415308658
Series: In Sight: Visual Culture
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 01 July 2004
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski

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<p> An indispensable collection. --afterimage<p> The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader mounts a powerful challenge to the field's critics... --CAAreviews