What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by

The author traces the history and theory of visual culture asking how and why visual media have become so central to contemporary everyday life. He explores a w

What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by

In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting

" This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its major strength is its ins