The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader

by Jeannene Pryzblyski

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415308666
• ISBN13: 9780415308663
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.7"