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

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 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

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