{"product_id":"global-visual-cultures-isbn-9781405169219","title":"Global Visual Cultures","description":"\u003ci\u003eGlobal Visual Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e is a definitive anthology that provides a new and groundbreaking perspective on the field, and addresses multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the \"everyday\" to global political contexts.   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExpands the theoretical framework for considering visual culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together a rich selection of readings relevant in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary settings, from critical theory, anthropology and history, to political science, architecture, and ethnic, race and gender studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyzes cultural phenomena in global and local contexts and across a broad geographical and geopolitical terrain\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddress multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the \"everyday\" to global political contexts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers ample, useful pedagogy that reveals the multi-faceted nature of visual culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Notes on Contributors.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Images.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Realigned Art Worlds: art\/agency\/globalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eZoya Kocur\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.Globalism or Nationalism? (\u003ci\u003eCai Guoqiang, Zhang Huan, and Xu Bing in New York, Xiaoping Lin\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Linking Theory, Politics and Art (\u003ci\u003eMarina Gržinić\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Art, Agency and Hermetic Imagination (\u003ci\u003eJean Fisher\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Constitutive Effects: The Techniques of the Curator (\u003ci\u003eSimon Sheikh\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Do Images Have a Gender? (\u003ci\u003eDavid Joselit\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Rethinking the F Word: A Review of Activist Art on the Internet (\u003ci\u003eMary Flanagan and Suyin Looui\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: (in)Visible architectures: space\/geopolitics\/power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eZoya Kocur\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. La Lección Arquitectónica de Schwarzenegger (The Arquitectural Lesson of Arnold Schwarzenegger) (\u003ci\u003eCuauhtemoc Medina\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Checkpoints: The Split Sovereign and the One-Way Mirror (\u003ci\u003eEyal Weizman\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Black Tents (\u003ci\u003eÇagla Hadimioglu\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Subterranean Modernities: The Spanish City and its Visual Underground (\u003ci\u003eJuan F. Egea\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Visualizing Antarctica as a Place in Time (Kathryn Yusoff).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Images of Untranslatability in the US War on Terror (\u003ci\u003eRosalind C. Morris\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. An Immense and Unexpected Field of Action: Webcams. Surveillance and everyday life (\u003ci\u003eJ. Macgregor Wise\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Mediated Bodies: representation\/circulation\/self.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eZoya Kocur\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Michael Jackson, Television, and Post-Op Disasters (\u003ci\u003eMacarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Aliens and Indians: Science Fiction, Prophetic Photography and Near-Future Visions (\u003ci\u003eCurtis Marez\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Orienting Orientalism, or How to Map Cyberspace (\u003ci\u003eWendy Hui Kyong-Chun\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Spatial \"wRapping\": A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion (\u003ci\u003eScott L. Ruff\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Self Styling (\u003ci\u003eSarah Nuttall\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. \"Straight\" Women, Queer Texts: Boy-Love Manga and the Rise of a Global Counterpublic (\u003ci\u003eAndrea Wood\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Afterimage: trauma\/history\/memory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eZoya Kocur\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Squatting Through Violence (\u003ci\u003eSimon Leung\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Contemporary Documentary Film and \"Archive Fever\": History, the Fragment, the Joke (\u003ci\u003eJaimie Baron\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. The mote in God's eye: 9\/11, then and now (\u003ci\u003eJon Bird\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Caught by Images (\u003ci\u003eErnst van Alphen\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Political Literacy and Voice (\u003ci\u003eJoy James\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What makes this volume unique is its welcoming of various topics; asking its readers to stroll over these by putting them side-by-side and by putting aside, if there is any, their categorical and\/or taxonomical views; and having the company of these myriad fields of visual culture... \u003ci\u003eGlobal Visual Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely endeavour in broaching our capacity to imagine the world as a global entity which entails various mechanisms of exchange and sharing.\" (\u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eZoya Kocur\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar based in New York. She has taught at New York University and the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the former Associate Curator of Education at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, co-editor of the volume \u003ci\u003eContemporary Art and Multicultural Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eTheory in Contemporary Art Since 1985\u003c\/i\u003e (2005 Wiley-Blackwell).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eGlobal Visual Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e is a definitive collection of works on the current topics in the field of visual culture. Contributing to an expanding theoretical framework for considering visual culture, the volume brings together a selection of readings relevant to a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary settings, from critical theory, anthropology, and history, to political science, architecture, and ethnic, race, and gender studies. Revealing the interplay between areas of study in this diverse field, the texts analyze cultural phenomena in global and local contexts and across a broad geographical and geopolitical terrain.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003eWith topics ranging from Michael Jackson to 9\/11, from webcams and surveillance to Antarctica and gendered images, the essays selected for inclusion in \u003ci\u003eGlobal Visual Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e address multiple interpretations of the visual, from considerations of the \"everyday\" to global political contexts. This definitive anthology provides a new and groundbreaking perspective on visual culture on a global scale.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Many anthologies dealing with globalization are not global themselves. This book is a truly global, novel and incisive approach to the intricacies of contemporary visual culture and its political complexities.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eGerardo Mosquera, Independent art critic and curator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989298561253,"sku":"NP9781405169219","price":89.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405169219.jpg?v=1761783571","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/global-visual-cultures-isbn-9781405169219","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}