The Visual Culture Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415252210 ISBN 13: 9780415252218

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

The Visual Culture Reader does justice to this exciting interdisciplinary field, bringing together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles by authors including Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway and Kobena Mercer. In total, 63 essays cover photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture. The reader, now in a completely revised new edition, comprises articles grouped into thematic sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editor, and including suggestions for further reading.

About this title

About the Author

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Associate Professor of Art and Comparative Literature at the Stony Brook University. He is the author of Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (1995), Introduction to Visual Culture (1999), and the editor of Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews (1999) all published by Routledge.

Review

'This volume is required reading for anyone interested in media studies or visual culture. It brings critical visuality studies up to the moment and introduces new directions for future work. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.' - A. M. Laflen, Marist College in CHOICE

'This is a first rate collection covering the range and the depth of critical visual studies today. An essential guide for anyone concerned with the power of the image and the image of power.' - McKenzie Wark, Eugene Lang College, USA

'This 3rd edition of Nicholas Mirzoeff’s The Visual Culture Reader is unrecognizable from the collection’s first edition published way back in the last millennium. Its content, character, and urgency are invigorating and galvanizing. If the Reader’s first edition gave shape to Visual Culture Studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry, this 3rd edition will, I believe, mould visual culture itself.' - Marquard Smith, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Visual Culture & Director of Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, UK

'With this volume, Mirzoeff has assembled an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners of visual culture across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. Combining foundational texts and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship, the Third Edition of the VCR charts the emergence of critical visuality studies and brings the field into the twenty-first century.' - A. Joan Saab, University of Rochester, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0415252210
• ISBN 13: 9780415252218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 760
• Editor: Nicholas Mirzoeff