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VISUAL CULTURE AND THE NEW MILLENNIUM


Matthew Landrus,
University of Oxford

Constructing a hyper reference to appropriations of Leonardo da Vinci: Virtual Museums and Visual Archives; Digital Imagery and the Law.

The Leonardo collectibles museum at http://leonardo-da-vinci.org addresses three principle problems of visual culture. First, how are Leonardo collectibles defined within the history of collecting? Secondly, how do these relatively ordinary objects indicate the postmodern reception of the idea of Leonardo and his work? And finally, how are the images of these objects, and other material at the site, free to everyone on the web? The site has been organized with regard to these specific concerns. Also, the content is almost entirely visual, as the subject is itself that of visual culture.



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