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Zusatztext Overall! A History of Visual Culture is a solid introductory reader. The essays are short! assume no conversancy in social or media theory and consistently make use of fresh visual examples. Informationen zum Autor Jane Kromm is Associate Professor of Art History at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is the author of numerous articles on the representation of madness. "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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction Jane Kromm Part One: Revolt and Revolution Introduction1: Helen Weston, 'The Politics of Visibility in Revolutionary France: Projecting on the Streets'2: Richard Taws, '19th c. Revolutions and Strategies of Visual Persuasion'3: Elizabeth Guffey, 'Socialist Movements and the Development of the Political Poster'4: Jelena Stojanoviæ, 'Avant-gardes and the Culture of Protest: The Use-Value of Iconoclasm' Part Two: Science and Empiricism Introduction5: Jane Kromm, 'To Collect is to Quantify and Describe: Visual Practices in the Development of Modern Science'6: Fae Brauer, 'The Transparent Body: Biocultures of Evolution, Eugenics, and Scientific Racism'7: Heather McPherson, 'Biology and Crime: Degeneracy and the Visual Trace'8: Nancy Anderson, 'Visual Models and Scientific Breakthroughs; The Virus and the Geodesic Dome: Pattern, Production, Abstraction and the Ready-Made Model' Part Three: Gaze and Spectacle Introduction9: Temma Balducci, 'Gaze, Body and Sexuality: Modern Rituals of Looking and Being Looked at'10: Jane Kromm, 'The Flâneur/Flâneuse Phenomenon'11: Elana Shapira, 'Gaze and Spectacle in the Calibration of Class and Gender: Visual Culture in Vienna 1900'12: Fae Brauer, 'The Stigmata of Abjection: Degenerate Limbs, Hysterical Skin and the Tattooed Body' Part Four: Acquisition, Display, and Desire Introduction13: Jane Kromm, 'To the Arcade: The World of the Shop and the Store'14:...
