ILLUSTRATIONS . . XI
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . XIII
CONTRIBUTORS . . XV

Critical Approaches to the Study of Visual Culture: An Incroduction to the Handbook . . 1

PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 
Editorial Introduction . . 59
1 Major Theoretical Frameworks in Visual Culture . . 68
2 Towards a New Visual Studies and Aesthetics: Theorizing the Turns . . 90
3 Scopic Regimes of Modernity Revisited . . 102
4 Phenomenology and Its Shadow: Visuality in the Late Work of Merleau-Ponty . . 115 
5 Hermeneutical Aesthetics and an Ontogeny of the Visual . . 131

PART TWO: ART AND VISUALITY 
Editorial Introduction . . 155
6 Visual Culture and Contemporary Art: Reframing the Picture, Recasting the Object? . . 164
7 Beyond Museology: Refraining the Sensorium . . 184
8 Cubism and the Iconic Turn: A Climate of Practice, the Object and Representation . . 200
9 Reframing Nature: The Visual Experience of Early Mountaineering . . 220
10 The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture . . 235

PART THREE: AESTHETICS, POLITICS AND VISUAL CULTURE 
Editorial Introduction . . 281
11 Sociology of the Spectacle: Politics, Terror, Desire . . 290
12 Art, Feminism and Visual Culture . . 310
13 Visual Consciousness: The Impact of New Media on Literate Culture . . 326
14 The 'Dictatorship of the Eye': Henri Lefebvre on Vision, Space and Modernity . . 342
15 Cubist Collage and Visual Culture: Representation and Politics . . 361

PART FOUR: PRACTICES AND INSTITUTIONS OF VISUAL CULTURE 
Editorial introduction . . 389
16 Looking Sharp: Fashion Studies . . 405
17 Seeing Things: Apprehending Material Culture . . 426
18 Photography and Visual Culture . . 445
19 Television as a Globai Visual Medium . . 464
20 Film and Visual Culture . . 480
21 Pragmatic Vision: Connecting Aesthetics, Materiality and Culture in Landscape Architectural Practice . . 499
22 Images and Information in Cultures of Consumption . . 516

PART FIVE: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF VISUAL CULTURE 
Editorial Introduction . . 535
23 The Question of Method: Practice, Reflexivity and Critique in Visual Culture Studies . . 542
24 Digital Art and Visual Culture . . 559
25 Digitization, Visualization and the 'Descriptive Turn' in Contemporary Sociology . . 572
26 Action-based Visual and Creative Methods in Social Research . . 589
27 Neuroscience and the Nature of Visual Culture . . 607
28 Re-visualizing Anthropology through the Lens of The Ethnographer's Eye . . 628
29 Seven Theses on Visual Culture: Towards a Critical-Reflexive Paradigm for the New Visual Studies . . 648
30 Mapping the Visual Field: A Bibliographical Guide . . 674

NAME INDEX . . 765
SUBJECT INDEX . . 775