An introduction to visual culture /
Nicholas Mirzoeff.
- London : Routledge, 1999.
- xi, 274 p. : ill., map. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Introduction: what is visual culture? -- Picture definition: line, color, vision -- The age of photography (1839-1982) -- Virtuality: from virtual antiquity to the pixel zone -- Transculture: from Kongo to the Congo -- Seeing sex -- First contact: from Independence Day to 1492 and Millennium -- Diana’s death: gender, photography and the inauguration of global visual culture.
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Art and society. Visual communication. Visual perception. Mass media. Communication and culture. Postmodernism. Arte y sociedad. Comunicacion visual.