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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... URBAN MODERNISM 167 21 T.J. Clark THE VIEW FROM NOTRE - DAME 178 22 David Henkin WORD ON THE STREETS : EPHEMERAL SIGNAGE IN ANTEBELLUM NEW YORK 194 23 Judith Walkowitz URBAN SPECTATORSHIP 205 24 David Nye ELECTRICITY AND SIGNS 211 25 ...
... TO PART EIGHT 339 35 Lisa Tickner BANNERS AND BANNER - MAKING 341 36 Sharon Marcus THE PORTIÈRE AND THE PERSONIFICATION OF URBAN OBSERVATION 348 37 Shawn Michelle Smith " BABY'S PICTURE IS ALWAYS TREASURED viii CONTENTS.
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Contents
Vanessa R Schwartz and Jeannene M Przyblyski | 3 |
Siegfried Kracauer | 9 |
Margaret Cohen and Anne Higonnet | 15 |
Michael L Wilson | 26 |
PART | 35 |
PART THREE | 71 |
Gisèle Freund | 79 |
Jonathan Crary | 88 |
David | 211 |
Jennifer Watts | 218 |
Scenes of Altadena Los Angeles and Southern California unidentified | 228 |
PART | 233 |
Maurice Samuels | 238 |
1798 | 252 |
and her Son 1808 | 260 |
Kirk Savage | 262 |
Karl Marx | 91 |
Tom Gunning | 100 |
PART FOUR | 115 |
Daniel J Sherman | 130 |
James R Ryan | 145 |
Erika Rappaport | 151 |
117 | 162 |
PART FIVE | 165 |
T J Clark | 178 |
David Henkin | 194 |
Judith Walkowitz | 205 |
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