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1 The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader Edited by Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski O Routledge g^^ Taylor & Francis Group NEW YORK AND LONDON

2 Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Permissions Preface by the editors x xiii xvii xxi PART ONE Visual Culture and Disciplinary Practices 1 1 V I S U A L C U L T U R E ' S H I S T O R Y : T W E N T Y - F I R S T C E N T U R Y I N T E R D I S C I P L I N A R I T Y A N D I T S N I N E T E E N T H -C E N T U R Y O B J E C T S 3 2 Margaret Cohen and Anne Higonnet COMPLEX CULTURE 15 3 Michael L. Wilson V I S U A L C U L T U R E : A U S E F U L C A T E G O R Y OF H I S T O R I C A L A N A L Y S I S? 2 6 PART TWO Genealogies INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO 35 4 Charles Baudelaire THE PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE (1863) 37 5 Karl Marx COMMODITIES AND MONEY (1867) 42

3 vi 6 Sigmund Freud THE DREAM-WORK (1900) 47 7 Georg Simmel T H E M E T R O P O L I S A N D M E N T A L L I F E ( ) Alois Riegl T H E M O D E R N C U L T O F M O N U M E N T S : I T S C H A R A C T E R A N D I T S ORIGIN (1928) 56 9 Siegfried Kracauer PHOTOGRAPHY (1927) Walter Benjamin T H E W O R K O F A R T I N T H E A G E O F ' M E C H A N I C A L R E P R O D U C T I O N ( ) 6 3 PART THREE Technology and Vision INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE Michel Foucault PANOPTICISM Gisele Freund PRECURSORS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT Jonathan-Crary TECHNIQUES OF THE OBSERVER Wolfgang Schivelbusch PANORAMIC TRAVEL Tom Gunning ' A N I M A T E D P I C T U R E S ' : T A L E S OF T H E C I N E M A ' S F O R G O T T E N F U T U R E, A F T E R Y E A R S OF F I L M PART FOUR Practices of Display and the Circulation of Images INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR Tony Bennett THE EXHIBITIONARY COMPLEX 117

4 Vii 17 Daniel J. Sherman T H E B O U R G E O I S I E, C U L T U R A L A P P R O P R I A T I O N, A N D T H E A R T M U S E U M IN N I N E T E E N T H - C E N T U R Y F R A N C E James R. Ryan ON VISUAL INSTRUCTION Erika Rappaport A NEW ERA OF SHOPPING 151 PART FIVE Cities and the Built Environment Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE Carl E. Schorske T H E R I N G S T R A S S E, ITS C R I T I C S, A N D T H E B I R T H OF U R B A N M O D E R N I S M T.J. Clark THE VIEW FROM NOTRE-DAME David Henkin W O R D ON T H E S T R E E T S : E P H E M E R A L S I G N A G E IN A N T E B E L L U M N E W Y O R K Judith Walkowitz URBAN SPECTATORSHIP David Nye ELECTRICITY AND SIGNS Jennifer Watts P I C T U R E T A K I N G IN P A R A D I S E : LOS A N G E L E S A N D T H E C R E A T I O N OF R E G I O N A L I D E N T I T Y, PART SIX Visualizing the Past Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski INTRODUCTION TO PART SIX Pierre Nora BETWEEN MEMORY AND HISTORY: LES LIEUX DE MEMOIRE 235

5 viii 27 Maurice Samuels THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY BOOK: HISTORY BETWEEN WORD AND IMAGE Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby REVOLUTIONARY SONS, WHITE FATHERS AND CREOLE DIFFERENCE: GUILLAUME G U I L L 0 N - L E T H I E R E ' S OATH OF THE ANCESTORS (1822) Kirk Savage MOLDING EMANCIPATION: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD'S THE FREEDMAN AND THE MEANING OF THE CIVIL WAR Joy S. Kasson STAKING A CLAIM TO HISTORY. 276 PART SEVEN Imagining Differences INTRODUCTION TO PART SEVEN Linda Nochlin THE IMAGINARY ORIENT S. Hollis Clayson PAINTING THE TRAFFIC IN WOMEN Eric Ames FROM THE EXOTIC TO THE EVERYDAY: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION IN GERMANY Marcus Verhagen BOHEMIA IN DOUBT 327 PART EIGHT Inside and Out: Seeing the Personal and the Political INTRODUCTION TO PART EIGHT Lisa Tickner BANNERS AND BANNER-MAKING Sharon Marcus T H E P O R T I E R E A N D T H E P E R S O N I F I C A T I O N OF U R B A N O B S E R V A T I O N 3 4 8

6 ix 37 Shawn Michelle Smith " B A B Y ' S P I C T U R E IS A L W A Y S T R E A S U R E D " : E U G E N I C S A N D T H E R E P R O D U C T I O N OF W H I T E N E S S IN T H E F A M I L Y P H O T O G R A P H A L B U M ~ Debora L. Silverman PSYCHOLOGIE NOUVELLE 371 Index 393

The Slavery Reader. Gad Heuman and James Walvin. Routledge. Edited by. Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK

The Slavery Reader. Gad Heuman and James Walvin. Routledge. Edited by. Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK The Slavery Reader Edited by Gad Heuman and James Walvin Routledge Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK Contents Sources Acknowledgements xi xv General Introduction 1 PART ONE The Atlantic Slave