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Mirzoeff NicholasThe visual culture readerLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2002, 1 vol. (XIX-737 p.).ISBN 978-0-415-25222-5Résumé :In reponse to rapid changes in the emerging interdisciplinary field of visual culture, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The visual culture reader brings together key writing as well as specially commissioned articles covering a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture.The Reader features an introductory section tracing the development of visual culture studies in response to globalization and digital culture, and articles grouped into thematic sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editor.Thematic sections include :- Introductions/Provocations/Conversations- Plug-in theory- Global/Digital- Spectacle and display- Visual colonialism/Visual transculture- The gaze, the body and sexualityTaken as a whole, these 60 essays provide a comprehensive response to the diversity of contemporary visual culture and address the need of our postmodern culture to render experience in visual form.Nicholas Mirzoeff is associate professor of art at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Bodyscape : art, modernity and the ideal figure (1995), and An introduction to visual culture (1999)Axe de recherches :Axe transversal : Cultures visuelles