readings

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 * "Welcome to the Cultural Revolution," Rosalind Krauss
 * 'What Do Pictures "Really" Want?', W. J. T. Mitchell
 * Visual Culture Questionnaire

The art history debate

 * Baxandall, Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy
 * Alpers, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the 17th Century
 * "Visual Culture, Art History and the Humanities," Iván Castañeda
 * "Rescuing Art from 'Visual Culture Studies'" Michelle Marder Kamhi
 * exemplary art slide show
 * Great Art: Top 50 posters slide show>

Visual culture practice

 * Visual Culture: Critical Concepts in Media and Culture Studies
 * Visual Culture & Gender
 * I[|ntroduction: Photographic Interventions, Silke Horstkotte & Nancy Pedri]
 * Advertising images as social indicators: depictions of blacks in LIFE magazine, 1936–2000, " John Grady
 * "A private visual practice going public? Social functions and sociological research opportunities of Web-based family photography," LUC PAUWELS
 * "Places of the imagination: an ethnography of the TV detective tour," Stijn Reijnders
 * [|"Representing nature: art and climate change," Malcolm Miles]
 * "Flirting with space: thinking landscape relationally," David Crouch
 * THE POLITICS AND SEMIOTICS OF THE SMALLEST ICONS OF POPULAR CULTURE: Latin American Postage StampsJack Child
 * IMAGINING AND IMAGING "ANTHROPOS" IN EARLY-MODERN JAPAN, RONALD P. TOBY
 * THE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHIC CONDITION, MARY BOUQUET
 * [|**Radicalizing Refamiliarization**], [|Journal of Visual Culture 8:2] (Fall 2009).
 * "RECOGNIZING LINCOLN: IMAGE VERNACULARS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY VISUAL CULTURE," CARA A. FINNEGAN

Material Culture

 * Banerjee, M. and Miller, D. The Sari. Berg (paperback) 2008
 * Buchli, V. A Material Culture Reader. Oxford: Berg 2002
 *  Küchler, S. and Were G. Pacific Pattern. Thames and Hudson 2005
 * Miller, D. The Comfort of Things Polity 2008
 * Tilley, C. Keane, W. Kuchler, S. Rowlands, M. Spyer, P. Handbook of Material Culture. Sage 2006