texts

Our primary text for the course is Practices of Looking by Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright. Chapters 1 and 9 are available online as well as synopsis of other chapters.

Here are some other good books relevant to our inquiry:

Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism by David Summers
Techniques of the Observer by Jonathan Crary is an excellent book that reframes our understanding of images as they are undestood through history and culture. The book retraces the history of technologies for making amazing images and the uses that motivated that development.
The Language of New Media. by Lev Manovich is an important book in understanding how New Media are different. A major claim in the book is that such media facilitate a shift from Narrative as the essential framework of image works to the database as the primary framework.
Theory in Art Since 1985 edited by Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung
Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity by Johanna Drucker
Picture Theory by WJT Mitchell
Good Looking by Barbara Maria Stafford
Subcultures: the Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdidge
The Domain of Images by James Elkins
Teaching Visual Culture by Kerry Freedman
The Anti- Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
The Scandal of Pleasure by Elaine Scarry

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