Animation Between Magic Miracles And Mechanics

Author : Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen,Laura Katrine Skinnebach,Henning Laugerud
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788775972654

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Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics by Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen,Laura Katrine Skinnebach,Henning Laugerud Pdf

When it comes to images, we are all animists. Deep down, we all know that images can – at least potentially – be alive or come to life. Nowadays, we may tend to rationalize our ingrained animism and explain it away as a mere projection only happening in the space between image and viewer. In the Middle Ages, however, imagery made enthusiastic use of magical, miraculous and mechanical means of animation, empowered and ensouled by both natural and supernatural principles of life. This animist book investigates magic, miracles and mechanics as motors of animation and seeks to understand the living image in solidarity with medieval experience rather than dismissive alienation of it. Effigies did bleed, weep or lactate, either through divine intervention or through hydraulic machinery. Statues did move or speak, either as demonic oracles or as talking heads with implanted speaking tubes. Marvels made by magic or by miracles were real, as real as the wonders of physical mechanics moving bodily matter. We just need to look and listen more carefully to comprehend these fluid realities, even when – especially when – they challenge our received worldview. Animation was by no means uncontested or uncontradicted, but even its stiffest critics knew that gods and demons could intervene in inanimate matter to set it in motion, to speak in tongues and exude the liquids of life.

Author : Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen,Laura Katrine Skinnebach,Henning Laugerud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 877219653X

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Animation Between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics by Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen,Laura Katrine Skinnebach,Henning Laugerud Pdf

"Animation" implies that the image or figural object is alive, endowed with anima: a "soul", "spirit" or "vital principle." In the Middle Ages, holy or emphatically unholy imagery often possessed an ability to come to life, to act and do things, to move and gesticulate, to speak and exude. This "life" might be a result of natural or supernatural principles; it might be a work of magic, a work of mechanics or a miracle (a divine work). This book is about the different modes of animation that made medieval images perform their spectacular wonders of locomotion and physical transformation, ranging from mechanical machinery to magical conjuration and miraculous ensoulment. Talking and bleeding crucifixes are investigated alongside robot Redeemers, weeping Madonnas, automated devils and self-propelled statues - "statuas animatas" - that enacted their visible and audible animations in monasteries and churches, in historical technologies and treatises, in theurgical tales and demonologies. With its confessed reinvigoration of animism, this book will animate anyone with an interest in medieval art and art history, culture, ideas, religion, anthropology, philosophy and theology.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111387635

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Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much depends on the specific circumstances, as the works by philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, and medical practitioners have regularly demonstrated. It would not be good enough, as previous scholarship has commonly done, to examine simply what the various writers or artists had to say about nature. While modern scientists consider just the hard-core data of the objective world, cultural historians and literary scholars endeavor to comprehend the deeper meaning of the concept of nature presented by countless writers and artists. Only when we have a good grasp of the interactions between people and their natural environment, are we in a position to identify and interpret mental structures, social and economic relationships, medical and scientific concepts of human health, and the messages about all existence as depicted in major art works. In light of the current conditions threatening to bring upon us a global crisis, it matters centrally to take into consideration pre-modern discourses on nature and its enormous powers to understand the topoi and tropes determining the concepts through which we perceive nature. Nature thus proves to be a force far beyond all human comprehensibility, being both material and spiritual depending on our critical approaches.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1280637986

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Animation by Anonim Pdf

Learn the key skills you need with this practical and inspirational guide to all the fundamental principles of animation. With extended pieces on timing, acting and technical aspects, Chris Webster has created the vital learning tool to help you get the most out of your animation and develop the practical skills needed by both professionals and serious students alike. The free CD-ROM includes more than 30 animations illustrating the techniques described throughout the book as well as examples of a professional Production Schedule, Budget and Production Chart - everything you need to get started! This book comes with a Foreword by Peter Lord, Creative Director and Co-Owner of Aardman Animations and an Introduction by Mike Milne, Director of the award-winning animation house Computer Animation, Framestore CFC.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004363809

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Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West by Anonim Pdf

In Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars advances the theory that charisma may be a quality of art as well as of person.

Author : Donald Crafton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520261037

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Shadow of a Mouse by Donald Crafton Pdf

“Donald Crafton, our lively guide, shows us around a Tooniverse populated by performers, not just images, who engage us in all the ways their flesh-and-blood counterparts do, and then some. Taking classical animation as his terrain, Crafton nevertheless pushes ongoing discussions of performance, liveness, and corporeality in the directions in which they need to go if they are to help us describe and navigate our increasingly virtual worlds.” Philip Auslander, author of Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture "Every once in a while a book comes along that marks a transformational point in its discipline. Such a book is Donald Crafton's Shadow of a Mouse. Crafton skillfully draws together theoretical sources, animation history, technological development, and social analysis, deftly weaving together thinkers from Disney to Deleuze and Sito to Stanislavsky. The result is a substantial rethinking of animation that will reshape traditional approaches to the medium. Crafton's magisterial grasp of theory and history is livened by a true fan's passion for the subject and a keen sense of humor. Shadow of a Mouse is a must-read for anyone with an interest in performance, embodiment, popular culture, race, or reception." Mark Langer, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Carleton University

Author : Elizabeth King,W. David Todd
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606068397

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Miracles and Machines by Elizabeth King,W. David Todd Pdf

An abundantly illustrated narrative that draws from the history of art, science, technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, religion, and conservation in telling the extraordinary story of a Renaissance robot that prays. This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny, rare object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as “the monk.” The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, is among the earliest extant ancestors of the self-propelled robot. According to legend connected to the court of Philip II of Spain, the monk represents a portrait of Diego de Alcalá, a humble Franciscan lay brother whose holy corpse was said to be agent to the miraculous cure of Spain’s crown prince as he lay dying in 1562. In tracking the origins of the monk and its legend, the authors visited archives, libraries, and museums across the United States and Europe, probing the paradox of a mechanical object performing an apparently spiritual act. They identified seven kindred automata from the same period, which, they argue, form a paradigmatic class of walking “prime movers,” unprecedented in their combination of visual and functional realism. While most of the literature on automata focuses on the Enlightenment, this enthralling narrative journeys back to the late Renaissance, when clockwork machinery was entirely new, foretelling the evolution of artificial life to come.

Author : Jan Bäcklund,Henrik Oxvig,Martin Søberg,Michael Renner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Reality
ISBN : 8771248552

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What Images Do by Jan Bäcklund,Henrik Oxvig,Martin Søberg,Michael Renner Pdf

When images look like something they do so because they are different from what they resemble. This difference is not sufficiently captured by the traditional theories of representation and mimesis, and yet it is the condition for any such theory. Various contemporary image theorists have pointed out that Plato already understood that images are not what they look like. Images have their own existence which cannot be identified with a concept, but should be examined in terms of actions. This book comprises fifteen articles that investigate what images do, particularly in relation to the disciplines of architecture, design and visual arts. It claims that it is the differentiating power of images -- their actions -- which constitutes their capacity to look like something they are not, as well as create something that does not yet exist. What Images Do addresses the crucial role that images might play in producing and investigating what we have not yet seen or understood in and of reality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Travel
ISBN : MINN:319510027968589

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Travel by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Latham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472815156

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Broken Legions by Mark Latham Pdf

The Roman Empire rules the civilised world with an iron fist, seemingly all-powerful and limitless. And yet, the power of Rome is secured not by its mighty legions, but by small bands of warriors and agents fighting a secret war. Tasked by the Emperor to explore ancient temples, forgotten labyrinths and beast-haunted caverns, they seek out artefacts hidden by the gods themselves, hunt creatures of myth and face enemies that would use dark magic against the empire. Broken Legions is a set of fantasy skirmish rules for a war unknown to history, fought in the shadows of the Roman Empire. Various factions recruit small warbands to fight in tight, scenario-driven battles that could secure the mystical power to defend – or crush – Rome. A points system allows factions to easily build a warband, and mercenaries and free agents may also be hired to bolster a force. Heroes and leaders may possess a range of skills, traits and magical abilities, but a henchman's blade can be just as sharp, and a campaign can see even the lowliest henchman become a hero of renown.

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015084586687

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The Spectator by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Television in education
ISBN : MINN:31951D00040014K

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Teachers Guides to Television by Anonim Pdf

Author : Albert A. Hopkins
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547375562

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Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography by Albert A. Hopkins Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography" by Albert A. Hopkins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015039628683

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Niles' National Register by Anonim Pdf

Containing political, historical, geographical, scientifical, statistical, economical, and biographical documents, essays and facts: together with notices of the arts and manu factures, and a record of the events of the times.