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Title

The nineteenth-century visual culture reader / edited by Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski.

Publication

New York ; London : Routledge, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Schwartz, Vanessa R.
• Przyblyski, Jeannene M.

Description

xxiii, 405 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

In sight

Uniform Title

In sight.

Alternative Title

19th century visual culture reader

Subjects

• Communication and culture > History > 19th century
• Visual communication > History > 19th century
• Arts and society > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Visual culture and disciplinary practices -- 1. Visual culture's history : twenty-first century interdisciplinarity and its nineteenth-century objects / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene Przyblyski -- 2. Complex culture / Margaret Cohen and Anne Higonnet -- 3. Visual culture : a useful category of historical analysis? / Michael L. Wilson -- Pt. 2. Genealogies -- Introduction to part two / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 4. The painter of modern life (1863) / Charles Baudelaire -- 5. Commodities and money (1867) / Karl Marx -- 6. The dream work (1900) / Sigmund Freud -- 7. The metropolis and mental life (1903) / Georg Simmel -- 8. The modern cult of monuments : its character and its origin (1928) / Alois Riegel -- 9. Photography (1927) / Siegfried Kracauer -- 10. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction (1936) / Walter Benjamin -- Pt. 3. Technology and vision -- Introduction to part three / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 11. Panopticism / Michel Foucault -- 12. Precursors of the photographic portrait / Gisele Freund -- 13. Techniques the observer / Jonathan Crary -- 14. Panoramic travel / Wolfgang Schivelbusch -- 15. 'Animated pictures' : tales of the cinema's forgotten future, after 100 years of film / Tom Gunning -- Pt. 4. Practices of display and the circulation of images -- Introduction to part four / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 16. The exhibitionary complex / Tony Bennett -- 17. The bourgeoisie, cultural appropriation, and the art museum in nineteenth century France / Daniel J. Sherman -- 18. On visual instruction / James R. Ryan -- 19. A new era of shopping / Erika Rappaport -- Pt. 5. Cities and the built environment -- Introduction to part five / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 20. The ringstrasse, its critics, and the birth of urban modernism / Carl E. Schorske -- 21. The view from Notre Dame / T. J. Clark -- 22. Word on the streets : ephemera signage in antebellum New York / David Henkin -- 23. Urban spectatorship / Judith Walkowitz -- 24. Electricity and signs / David Nye -- 25. Picture taking in paradise : Los Angeles and the creation of regional identity, 1880-1970 / Jennifer Watts -- Pt. 6. Visualizing the past -- Introduction to part six / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 26. Between memory and history : les lieux de memoire / Pierre Nora -- 27. The illustrated history book : history between word and image / Maurice Samuels -- 28. Revolutionary sons, White fathers and Creole difference : Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere's Oath of the ancestors (1822) / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby -- 29. Molding emancipation : John Quincy Adams Ward's The freedman and the meaning of the Civil War / Kirk Savage -- 30. Staking a claim to history / Joy S. Kasson -- Pt. 7. Imagining differences -- Introduction to part seven / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 31. The imaginary orient / Linda Nochlin -- 32. Painting the traffic in women / S. Hollis Clayson -- 33. From the exotic to the everyday : the ethnographic exhibit in Germany / Eric Ames -- 34. Bohemia in doubt / Marcus Verhagen -- Pt. 8. Inside and out : seeing the personal and the political -- Introduction to part eight / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 35. Banners and banner-making / Lisa Tickner -- 36. The portiere and the personification of urban observation / Sharon Marcus -- 37. "Baby's picture is always treasured" : eugenics and the reproduction of whiteness in the family photograph album / Shawn Michelle Smith -- 38. Psychologie nouvelle / Debora L. Silverman.

ISBN

• 0415308658 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415308666 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003025852

OCLC

• 53824152
• ocm53824152
• SCSB-5084755

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries