Title & Author:

Visual culture and tourism / edited by David Crouch and Nina Lübbren.

Edition:

English ed.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003.

Description:

xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From 'women's lib.' to 'Palestinian women': the politics of picture postcards in Palestine/Israel / Annelies Moors -- Algeria in and out of the frame: visuality and cultural tourism in the nineteenth century / Deborah Cherry -- Henri Chapu's provincial monuments to Jean-François Millet: legitimizing the peasant-painter through tourism / Bradley Fratello -- Open-air museums and the tourist gaze / Stephen F. Mills -- British photographers and tourism in the nineteenth century: three case studies / Robin Lenman -- Artists as drivers of the tour bus: landscape painting as a spur to tourism / Peter Howard -- North to South: paradigm shifts in European art and tourism, 1880-1920 / Nina Lübbren -- Picture essay: souvenir Bangkok / Davide Deriu -- Unlosing lost places: image making, tourism and the return to terra cognita / Roger Balm and Briavel Holcomb -- Holocaust tourism: being there, looking back and the ethics of spatial memory / Griselda Pollock -- Joe's bar, Douglas, Isle of Man: photographic representations of holidaymakers in the 1950s / Doug Sandle -- Straight ways and loss: the tourist encounter with woodlands and forests / Simon Evans and Martin Spaul -- Tourist:pioneer:hybrid: London bridge, the mirage in the Arizona desert / Daniel Jewesbury -- Frightening and familiar: David Lynch's Twin peaks and the North American suburb / Renée Tobe -- Mountains and landscapes: towards embodied visualities / Eeva Jokinen and Soile Veijola.

Summary:

Explores the complex association between tourism and visual culture throughout history and across cultures. From postcards and paintings to photography and film, tourism and visual culture have a long standing history of mutual entanglement.

Resources:
Publisher description
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

1859735886 (paper)
1859735835 (cloth)
9781859735831 (cloth)
9781859735886 (paper)

Subject:

Tourism Social aspects.
Tourism and art.
Tourisme Aspect social.
Tourisme et art.
Toerisme.
Sociale aspecten.
Kunst.
Beeldcultuur.

Added entries:

Lübbren, Nina.
Crouch, David, 1948-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231696
Call No.: G155.A1 V58 2003
Status: Available