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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... : EUGENICS AND THE REPRODUCTION OF WHITENESS IN THE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM 358 38 Debora L. Silverman PSYCHOLOGIE NOUVELLE Index 371 393 Illustrations 13.1 13.2 David Brewster's lenticular stereoscope , 1849 84 CONTENTS ix.
... stereoscope , 1849 84 Diagram of the operation of the Wheatstone stereoscope 88 13.3 Phantasmagoria , mid - nineteenth century 90 14.1 16.1 Monotony of railway journey , Sleeping Travelers , Honoré Daumier The cabinet of curiosities ...
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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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