Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This innovative collection of essays offers exciting new research and thoughtful reflection on the subject of visual culture and its relationship to art history.
Brings together innovative scholarship by major scholars.
Engages with cross-cultural questions, asking if attention to visual culture is a western preoccupation.
Draws on a wide range of cultures, locations and historical periods, from the eighth century China to contemporary South Africa, from Byzantium to early modern and modern Europe.
Covers a wealth of visual forms and media including photography, film, painting, sculpture, drawing, installation and the decorative arts

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Art History Visual Culture
• 2 Oneiric Horizons and Dissolving Bodies: Buddhist Cave Shrine as Mirror Hall
• 3 Senses and Sensibility in Byzantium
• 4 Gendering the Period Eye: Deschi de Parto and Renaissance Visual Culture
• 5 Visceral Culture: Blushing and the Legibility of Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century British Portaiture
• 6 Making Sense out of the Visual: Aboriginal Presentations and Representations in Nineteenth-Century Canad
• 7 Framing the Colony: Houses of Algeria Photographed
• 8 'Modest Recording Instruments': Science, Surrealism and Visuality
• 9 Art Beyond Aesthetics: Philosophical Criticism, Art History and Contemporary Art
• 10 History as the Main Complaint: William Kentridge and the Making of Post-Apartheid South Africa
• Notes on Contributors
• Index
• Colour plate