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Visual Culture and Tourism
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Description
From postcards and paintings to photography and film, tourism and visual culture have a long-standing history of mutual entanglement. For centuries art has inspired many an intrepid traveller, and tourism provides an insatiable market for indigenous art, authentic or otherwise. This book explores the complex association between tourism and visual culture throughout history and across cultures. How has tourism been linked to images of colonial expansion? Why are we so intrigued by lost places, such as Tutankhamun's tomb or Machu Picchu, South Americas lost city of the Incas? What is the relationship between art, tourism and landscape preference? What role did commercial tourist photographers play in the imagination of Victorian Britain? Drawing upon examples from across the globe, this exciting new contribution to a popular subject illustrates how tourism and visual culture intersect with one another and in the process become contested ground.
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Product details
Published | 01 Sep 2010 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 304 |
ISBN | 9781859735831 |
Imprint | Berg Publishers |
Illustrations | 30 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index |
Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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'The aim of Visual Culture and Tourism is to explore the ''mutual entanglement'' of tourism and visual culture.'Times Literary Supplement