An introduction to visual culture
This is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of visual culture from painting to the computer and television screen. It will prove indispensable to students of art and art history as well as students of cultural studies. Mirzoeff begins by defining what visual culture...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London; New York
Routledge
1999
©1999 |
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Add Tag | Summary: | This is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of visual culture from painting to the computer and television screen. It will prove indispensable to students of art and art history as well as students of cultural studies. Mirzoeff begins by defining what visual culture is, and explores how and why visual media - fine art, cinema, the Internet, advertising, performance, photography, television - have become so central to contemporary everyday life. He argues that the visual is replacing the linguistic as our primary means of communicating with each other and of understanding our postmodern world. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 274 pages illustrations, map 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780415158756 9780415158763 0415158753 0415158761 |
An introduction to visual culture