An introduction to visual culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1999.Description: xi, 274p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415158763 (pbk.) :
- 9780415158756 (hbk.) :
- 9780415158763
- 709.04 MIR
- N72.S6 .M57 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. Visuality -- 1.Picutre definition: line, color, vision -- 2.The age of photography (1839-1982) -- 3.Virtuality: from virtual antiquity to the pixel zone -- Part two. Culture -- 4.Transculture: From Kongo to the Congo -- 5.Seeing sex -- 6.First contact: from Independence Day to 1492 and Millennium.
Includes bibliograpical references.
This is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of visual culture from painting to the television screen. Mirzoeff argues that the visual is replacing the linguistic as our primary means of communicating.