Visual culture

The total of images, objects, and other visuality that has been built up by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to another. It includes art media such as painting, drawing, prints, and installations; architecture and design; utilitarian artifacts of a culture such as tools and costime; media such as photography, film, television, and digital media, covering topics of news, popular culture, advertising and consumerism, politics, law, religion, and science and medicine.