Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The nineteenth-century visual culture reader / edited by Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski.
Alternate Title(s):
19th century visual culture reader
Published / Created:
New York : Routledge, 2004.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 405 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003025852.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Visual culture's history: twenty-first-century interdisciplinarity and its nineteenth-century objects / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski. -- Complex culture / Margaret Cohen and Anne Higonnet. -- Visual culture: a useful category of historical analysis? / Michael L. Wilson. -- Genealogies / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski. -- The painter of modern life (1863) / Charles Baudelaire. -- Commodities and money (1867) / Karl Marx. -- The dream-work (1900) / Sigmund Freud. -- The metropolis and mental life (1903) / Georg Simmel. -- The modern cult of monuments: its character and its origin (1928) / Alois Riegl. -- Photography (1927) / Siegfried Kracauer. -- The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction (1936) / Walter Benjamin. -- Technology and vision / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski. -- Panopticism / Michel Foucault. -- Precursors of the photographic portrait / Gisèle Freund. -- Techniques of the observer / Jonathan Crary. -- Panoramic travel / Wolfgang Schivelbusch. -- 'Animated pictures': tales of the cinema's forgotten future, after 100 years of film / Tom Gunning. -- Practices of display and the circulation of images / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski. -- The exhibitionary complex / Tony Bennett. -- The Bourgeoisie, cultural appropriation, and the art museum in nineteenth -century France / Daniel J. Sherman. -- On visual instruction / James R. Ryan. -- A new era of shopping / Erika Rappaport. -- Cities and the built environment / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski. -- The Ringstrasse, its critics, and the birth of urban modernism / Carl E. Schorske. -- The view from Notre-Dame / T.J. Clark. -- Word on the streets: ephemeral signage in antebellum New York / David Henkin. -- Urban spectatorship / Judith Walkowitz. -- Electricity and signs / David Nye. -- Picture taking in paradise: Los Angeles and the creation of regional identity, 1880-1920 / Jennifer Watts. -- Visualizing the past / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski. -- Between memory and history: Les lieux de mémoire / Pierre Nora. -- The illustrated history book: history between word and image / Maurice Samuels. -- Revolutionary sons, white fathers and Creole difference: Guillaume Guillon-Lethiére's Oath of the ancestors (1822) / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby. -- Molding emancipation: John Quincy Adams Ward's The freedman and the meaning of the Civil War / Kirk Savage. -- Staking a claim to history / Joy S. Kasson. -- Imaging differences / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski. -- The imaginary Orient / Linda Nochlin. -- Painting the traffic in women / S. Hollis Clayson. -- From the exotic to the everyday: the ethnographic exhibition in Germany / Eric Ames. -- Bohemia in doubt / Marcus Verhagen. -- Inside and out: seeing the personal and the political / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski. -- Banners and banner-making / Lisa Tickner. -- The portiére and the personification of urban observation / Sharon Marcus. -- "Baby's picture is always treasured": eugenics and the reproduction of whiteness in the family photograph / Shawn Michelle Smith. -- Psychologie nouvelle / Debora L. Silverman.
Subject Terms:
Arts and society -- History -- 19th century. | Visual communication -- History -- 19th century. | Communication and culture -- History -- 19th century.
Contributors:
Schwartz, Vanessa R. | Przyblyski, Jeannene M.