The Visual Culture Reader

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Visual Culture Reader brings together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles covering a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture.
The Reader features an introductory section tracing the development of visual culture studies in response to globalization and digital culture, and articles grouped into thematic sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editor and conclude with suggestions for further reading.

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.