The nineteenth-century visual culture reader / edited by Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Visual culture's history: twenty-first-century interdisciplinarity and its nineteenth-century objects / Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- Complex culture / Margaret Cohen, Anne Higonnet -- Visual culture: a useful category of historical analysis? / Michael L. Wilson -- Genealogies / Vanessa R. Schwartz, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 --

Pt. 1. Visual culture and disciplinary practices -- 1. Visual culture's history : twenty-first century interdisciplinarity and its nineteenth-century objects / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene Przyblyski -- 2. Complex culture / Margaret Cohen and Anne Higonnet -- 3. Visual culture : a useful category of historical analysis? / Michael L. Wilson -- Pt. 2. Genealogies -- Introduction to part two / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 4. The painter of modern life (1863) / Charles Baudelaire -- 5. Commodities and money (1867) / Karl Marx -- 6. The dream work (1900) / Sigmund Freud -- 7. The metropolis and mental life (1903) / Georg Simmel -- 8. The modern cult of monuments : its character and its origin (1928) / Alois Riegel -- 9. Photography (1927) / Siegfried Kracauer -- 10. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction (1936) / Walter Benjamin -- Pt. 3. Technology and vision -- Introduction to part three / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 11. Panopticism / Michel Foucault -- 12. Precursors of the photographic portrait / Gisele Freund -- 13. Techniques the observer / Jonathan Crary -- 14. Panoramic travel / Wolfgang Schivelbusch -- 15. 'Animated pictures' : tales of the cinema's forgotten future, after 100 years of film / Tom Gunning -- Pt. 4. Practices of display and the circulation of images -- Introduction to part four / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 16. The exhibitionary complex / Tony Bennett -- 17. The bourgeoisie, cultural appropriation, and the art museum in nineteenth century France / Daniel J. Sherman -- 18. On visual instruction / James R. Ryan -- 19. A new era of shopping / Erika Rappaport -- Pt. 5. Cities and the built environment -- Introduction to part five / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 20. The ringstrasse, its critics, and the birth of urban modernism / Carl E. Schorske -- 21. The view from Notre Dame / T. J. Clark -- 22. Word on the streets : ephemera signage in antebellum New York / David Henkin -- 23. Urban spectatorship / Judith Walkowitz -- 24. Electricity and signs / David Nye -- 25. Picture taking in paradise : Los Angeles and the creation of regional identity, 1880-1970 / Jennifer Watts -- Pt. 6. Visualizing the past -- Introduction to part six / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 26. Between memory and history : les lieux de memoire / Pierre Nora -- 27. The illustrated history book : history between word and image / Maurice Samuels -- 28. Revolutionary sons, White fathers and Creole difference : Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere's Oath of the ancestors (1822) / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby -- 29. Molding emancipation : John Quincy Adams Ward's The freedman and the meaning of the Civil War / Kirk Savage -- 30. Staking a claim to history / Joy S. Kasson -- Pt. 7. Imagining differences -- Introduction to part seven / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 31. The imaginary orient / Linda Nochlin -- 32. Painting the traffic in women / S. Hollis Clayson -- 33. From the exotic to the everyday : the ethnographic exhibit in Germany / Eric Ames -- 34. Bohemia in doubt / Marcus Verhagen -- Pt. 8. Inside and out : seeing the personal and the political -- Introduction to part eight / Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- 35. Banners and banner-making / Lisa Tickner -- 36. The portiere and the personification of urban observation / Sharon Marcus -- 37. "Baby's picture is always treasured" : eugenics and the reproduction of whiteness in the family photograph album / Shawn Michelle Smith -- 38. Psychologie nouvelle / Debora L. Silverman.

"The nineteenth century is central to contemporary discussions of visual culture. This reader brings together for the first time key writings about the period, exploring such topics as photographs, exhibitions and advertising. Suggesting that "modernity" rather than "modernism" is a valuable way of understanding the changes particular to the visual culture of the time, the editors investigate the variety of nineteenth-century images, technologies and visual experiences, stressing in particular the very consciousness of vision and visuality.The reader begins with three specially written essays about definitions of visual culture as an object of study. "Genealogies" 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 remainder is organized around themes: technologies of vision, practices of display and the circulation of images,; cities and the built environment, visual representations of the past, visual representations of categories of racial, sexual and social differences, and spatial configurations of inside and out, private and public. Selections include well-known authors and new research by younger scholars to produce a well-balanced and comprehensive collection."--Publisher description.

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