These texts represent both the formation of visual culture, and the ways in which it has transformed, and continues to transform, our understanding and experien

These texts represent both the formation of visual culture, and the ways in which it has transformed, and continues to transform, our understanding and experien

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

Book on art and philosophy

Focusing on images of or produced by nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy codification vis-à-vis the