Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Figures viii
5. Contributors xii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Visual Culture and the Meanings of Culture 5
8. 2. Definitions of Art and the Art World 18
9. 3. Concepts of Craft 34
10. 4. Design and Modern Culture 50
11. 5. Fashion: Style, Identity and Meaning 67
12. 6. Photography and Film 85
13. 7. Architecture and Visual Culture 102
14. 8. Representation and the Idea of Realism 117
15. 9. Visual Rhetoric 133
16. 10. The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Author 149
17. 11. The Ideology of the Visual 163
18. 12. Visual Practices in the Age of Industry 179
19. 13. Technical Reproduction and its Significance 197
20. 14. From Mass Media to Cyberculture 214
21. 15. Visual Culture and its Institutions 229
22. Index 246