The nineteenth century is central to contemporary discussions of visual culture. This reader brings together key writings on the period, exploring such topics a

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

Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of bot

The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, a