The Nineteenth-century Visual Culture ReaderVanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski This Reader brings together, for the first time, key writings about the nineteenth century, a key period in contemporary discussion of visual culture. Exploring such topics as photographs, exhibitions and advertising the editors suggest that 'modernity' rather than 'modernism' is a valuable way of understanding the changes particular to the visual culture of the time, and they investigate a variety of nineteenth-century images, technologies and visual experiences. With three specially-written essays about definitions of visual culture as an object of study, the book examines genealogies and introduces key writings about culture from writers living in the nineteenth century itself or from those who scrutinized its visual culture from early in the twentieth century such as Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer. The Nineteenth Century Visual Culture Reader is organized around key themes: * technologies of vision Selections include well-known authors and new research by younger scholars to produce a well-balanced and comprehensive collection. |
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... PHOTOGRAPHY ( 1927 ) 60 10 Walter Benjamin THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION ( 1936 ) 63 PART ... PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT 79 13 Jonathan Crary TECHNIQUES OF THE OBSERVER 82 14 Wolfgang Schivelbusch PANORAMIC TRAVEL 92 ...
... photographs , Henry Workman Keller , c . 1885 219 25.2 Boys in Front of Pampas Grass in Southern California , gelatin silver photograph , unidentified , c . 1905 223 25.3 In Semi - Tropical California , halftone photographs from.
... photographs in personal album , Edward Earle , c . 1890 226 25.5 Scenes in Los Angeles Chinatown , page of snapshots ... photograph of the Bab Mansour 293 31.3 The Bab Mansour at Meknes 295 31.4 Eugène Delacroix , Death of Sardanapalus ...
... Photograph , The Actresses ' Franchise League , assembled for the Women's Coronation Procession , June 17 , 1911 343 35.3 Mary Lowndes for the Women's Writers ' Suffrage League , banner in appliquéd velvets , June 13 , 1908 345 36.1 ...
Contents
Vanessa R Schwartz and Jeannene M Przyblyski | 3 |
Margaret Cohen and Anne Higonnet | 15 |
Michael L Wilson | 26 |
PART | 35 |
Georg Simmel | 51 |
Siegfried Kracauer | 60 |
PART THREE | 71 |
Gisèle Freund | 79 |
David | 211 |
Jennifer Watts | 218 |
photograph unidentified c 1905 | 223 |
Scenes of Altadena Los Angeles and Southern California unidentified | 228 |
PART | 233 |
Maurice Samuels | 238 |
and her Son 1808 | 260 |
Kirk Savage | 262 |
Karl Marx | 91 |
Wolfgang Schivelbusch | 92 |
Tom Gunning | 100 |
PART FOUR | 115 |
Daniel J Sherman | 130 |
James R Ryan | 145 |
Erika Rappaport | 151 |
PART FIVE | 165 |
T J Clark | 178 |
David Henkin | 194 |
Judith Walkowitz | 205 |
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