The Visual Culture Reader - Tapa dura

The Visual Culture Reader brings together the key writings in the exciting new interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Key features of the Reader include:
* a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting,
sculpture, advertising, virtual reality and other electronic imaging * thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editor
* sections addressing What Is Visual Culture; Visual Culture and Everyday Life; Virtuality: Virtual Bodies, Virtual Spaces; Race, Empire and After; Postcolonial Visual Cultures; Gender and Sexuality
* two specially-written introductory articles, by Irit Rogoff and Ella Shohat
* a stunning line-up of authors, from Roland Barthes to Donna Haraway.
Taken as a whole, the essays provide a comprehensive response to the diversity of contemporary visual culture, and address the need of our modern and postmodern culture to render experience in visual form.
Contributors include: Roland Barthes, Judith Butler, Anthea Callen, James Clifford, Michel de Certeau, René Descartes, Richard Dyer, John Fiske, Michel Foucault, Coco Fusco, Paul Gilroy, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Marshall McLuhan, Lynda Nead, Griselda Pollock, Mary-Louise Pratt, Irit Rogoff, Andrew Ross, Ella Shohat and Paul Virilio.

Nicholas Mirzoeff teaches history and theory of visual culture at SUNY, Stony Brook, USA. He is the author of Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (1995).