Table of Contents
List of figures, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, 1 THE CENTRALITY OF THE EYE IN WESTERN CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION, 2 ADVERTISING: THE RHETORICAL IMPERATIVE, 3 REPORTING AND VISUALISING, 4 FRACTURED SUBJECTIVITY, 5 THE CITY, THE CINEMA: MODERN SPACES, 6 FABULOUS CONFUSION! POP BEFORE POP?, 7 AN ART OF SCHOLARS: CORRUPTION, NEGATION AND PARTICULARITY IN PAINTINGS BY RYMAN AND RICHTER, 8 WATCHING YOUR STEP: THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF THE FLANEUR, 9 REICH DREAMS: RITUAL HORROR AND ARMOURED BODIES, 10 TELEVISION: NOT SO MUCH A VISUAL MEDIUM, MORE A VISIBLE OBJECT, 11 FOUCAULT'S OPTICS: THE (IN) VISION OF MORTALITY AND MODERNITY, 12 MANAGING 'TRADITION': THE PLIGHT OF AESTHETIC PRACTICES AND THEIR ANALYSIS IN A TECHNO SCIENTIFIC CULTURE, 13 PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODERN VISION: THE SPECTACLE OF 'NATURAL MAGIC', 14 THREE IMAGES OF THE VISUAL: EMPIRICAL, FORMAL AND NORMATIVE, Index