Visual Culture: Histories of Modern Visuality

Education facts

Code: KOVN13

<p>In this course, you explore how visual culture has evolved in relation to colonialism, consumerism, technology, and urban life. You examine photography, media, and cityscapes, focusing on how images shape identity, perception, and power in society.</p><p>In this course, you gain an in-depth understanding of the development of modern and contemporary visual culture, focusing on how visuality has been shaped by historical processes such as colonialism, urbanisation, technological innovation, and globalisation. The course examines how modern visual experiences, such as photography, advertising, digital media, and urban environments, relate to older forms of visual culture, highlighting both continuity and change. </p><p>The course is structured around three themes: colonialism and postcolonialism, consumer culture and technology and the city. Key topics include the global impact of colonial visual regimes, the rise of consumer imagery and media technologies, and the role of visual culture in shaping modern city life. The course also engages with critical theories that help us understand how images influence identity, perception, and power in society today. </p><p><br/></p>

Entry requirements

90 credits from first cycle including Bachelor's essay in one of the subjects history of art and visual studies, film studies, design studies, architecture, or the equivalent

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Visual Culture: Histories of Modern Visuality

  Lund University

  Lund

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %