Abstract
Preface Introduction 1. Sight Becomes Vision: From al-Haytham to Perspective 2. '1492': Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters 3. Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture 4. Panoptic Modernity 5. Imperial Transcultures: From Kongo to Congo 6. Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences 7. Inventing the West 8. Decolonizing Vision 9. Discrete States: Digital Worlds From the Difference Engine to Web 2.0 10. The Death of 'The Death of Photography' 11. Celebrity: From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV 12. Watching War.
Keywords
Visual cultureComputer scienceArtVisual arts
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Nicholas Mirzoeff
(2023).
An Introduction to Visual Culture.
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