The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader (In Sight: Visual Culture)

by Vanessa R. Schwartz (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $53.57

  Exploring photographs, exhibitions and advertising, this text suggests that modernity rather than modernism is a valuable way of understanding the changes particular to the visual culture of the time. It investigates the variety of 19th-century images, technologies and visual experiences, stressing the consciousness of vision and visuality.