Changing Images Of Pictorial Space

Author : William V. Dunning
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815625081

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Changing Images of Pictorial Space by William V. Dunning Pdf

No artist, critic, or art historian disputes the importance of recording how and why our conceptions and methods of depicting pictorial space have changed from ancient to modern times, and yet no previous book has provided a comprehensive history centered around these changing images of pictorial space and the ways in which their evolution reflects ideological changes in society. Dunning traces the two thousand year evolution of the conception and the depiction of space in European (primarily Italian and French) and American painting. Unraveling one illusory image after another into their particular elements, he explains the development of new styles and images in painting as a continuous rearrangement of these basic elements. Following this progression through the Greco-Roman period, the Italian Renaissance, impressionism, and the end of modern art, the author concludes with today's postmodern concentration on linguistic aspects in painting, a change from the former emphasis on space and illusion. Changing Images of Pictorial Space, with over forty illustrations, will be of interest to a wide audience—from art historians, painters, and art educators to general readers who wish to understand more about one of the central organizing principles in all schools and periods of art.

Author : Brooke L. Rogers,Anna Sugiyama
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848881266

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Space and Place: Diversity in Reality, Imagination, and Representation by Brooke L. Rogers,Anna Sugiyama Pdf

Author : Milton E. Brener
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0761818138

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Faces by Milton E. Brener Pdf

Scientists have emphasized the innate, genetically based nature of our fascination with the human face and its almost limitless expressive capacity, all of which is represented in the art of the last six centuries. But little attention has been paid to the anomoly of the vacuous expressions of earlier facial representations. Brener attributes this change to a change in the functioning of the human brain, as well as the role of cultural factors. It is the evolution of both genes and culture that has resulted in a marked increase in the human ability to create and interpret facial expressions. The result of this has impacted human behavior.

Author : M. George,D. Pezzoli-Olgiati
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137342683

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Religious Representation in Place by M. George,D. Pezzoli-Olgiati Pdf

Religious Representation in Place brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and Sciences to broaden the understanding of how religious symbols and spatial studies interact. The essays consider the relevance of religion in the experience of space, a fundamental dimension of culture and human life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489141

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Signs of Change by Anonim Pdf

Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000–2000 focuses on the changing relationships between what gradually emerged as the Arts and Christianity, the latter term covering both a stream of ideas and its institutions. The book as a whole is addressed to a general academic audience concerned with issues of cultural history, while the individual essays are also intended as scholarly contributions within their own fields. A collaborative effort by twenty-five European and American scholars representing disciplines ranging from aesthetics to the history of art and architecture, from literature, music and the theatre to classics, church history, and theology, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of intermedial phenomena, generally in larger cultural and intellectual contexts. The focus of topics extends from single concrete objects to sets of abstract concepts and values, and from a single moment in time to an entire millennium. While Signs of Change acknowledges the importance of synthesizing efforts essential to hermeneutically informed scholarship, in order to counterbalance generalized historical narratives with detailed investigations, broad accounts are juxtaposed with specialized research projects. The deliberately unchronological grouping of contributions underlines the effort to further discussion about methodologies for writing cultural history.

Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351606936

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Closet Drama by Catherine Burroughs Pdf

Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre. Examining an unusual mix of historical narratives, performances, and texts from the Renaissance to the present, this collection unleashes a provocative array of theoretical concerns about the phenomenon of the closet play—a dramatic text written for reading rather than acting.

Author : Lois Swan Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135933388

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Art Information and the Internet by Lois Swan Jones Pdf

In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.

Author : Rachel Eisendrath
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226516615

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Poetry in a World of Things by Rachel Eisendrath Pdf

Introduction -- Subjectivity and the antiquarian object: Petrarch among the ruins of Rome -- Here comes objectivity: Spenser's 1590 the Faerie Queene, book 3 -- Playing with things: reification in Marlowe's Hero and Leander -- Feeling like a fragment: Shakespeare's the Rape of Lucrece -- Coda: make me not object

Author : William V. Dunning
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815606303

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Advice to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era by William V. Dunning Pdf

Is art a matter of inspiration or of learning? Advice to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era, offers practical advice to the young artist about making the successful Dunning writes that in his years of teaching, he has heard students ask why no classes are ever offered to teach them what ingredients are helpful to the success of an artist: how to approach and deal with galleries and dealers; what to do about setting up their own studio and how to light it; and even how they should support themselves while they are attempting to do all this. Drawing on thirty-five years of experience as an artist and an art teacher, and those of several successful colleagues, the author follows the model of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet and Hiram William's Notes for a Young Painter to compose this practical guide book. Advice to Young Artists is the only book of its kind geared to aspiring artists.

Author : Dawn Stobbart,Monica Evans
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848882959

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Engaging with Videogames: Play, Theory and Practice by Dawn Stobbart,Monica Evans Pdf

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. Engaging with Videogames focuses on the multiplicity of lenses through which the digital game can be understood, particularly as a cultural artefact, economic product, educational tool, and narrative experience. Game studies remains a highly interdisciplinary field, and as such tends to bring together scholars and researchers from a wide variety of fields and analytical practices. As such, this volume includes explorations of videogames from the fields of literature, visual art, history, classics, film studies, new media studies, phenomenology, education, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, as well as game studies, design, and development. The chapters are organised thematically into four sections focusing on educational game practices, videogame cultures, videogame theory, and the practice of critical analysis. Within these chapters are explorations of sexual identity and health, videogame history, slapstick, player mythology and belief systems, gender and racial ideologies, games as a ‘body-without organs,’ and controversial games from Mass Effect 3 to Raid over Moscow. This volume aims to inspire further research in this rapidly evolving and expanding field.

Author : Simonetta Moro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429576744

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Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art by Simonetta Moro Pdf

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted to the "spatial turn" of poststructuralist philosophy, is reconstructed as hermeneutics, while exposing the nexus between topology, space-time, and memory. The book posits that the emergence of "mapping" as a ubiquitous theme in contemporary art can be attributed to the power of the cartographic model to constitute multiple worldviews that can be seen as paradigmatic of the post-modern and contemporary condition. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art theory, aesthetics, and cartography.

Author : S. Bennett,M. Polito
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137320179

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Performing Environments by S. Bennett,M. Polito Pdf

This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.

Author : Tila L. Kellman
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780889207479

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Figuring Redemption by Tila L. Kellman Pdf

Can visual art help redeem one’s sense of self, damaged by technological society? Michael Snow’s work is often described as self-referential, meaning that it “talks” about the relationships between its materials and images, largely ignoring relationships beyond the “frame.” However, since the work also encompasses the way in which the interior relationship of the work intersects with sight and how they, together, create the frame, the work also must include the people looking at it. This book explores how the visual art practice of Michael Snow asks the question Who? of the viewers as they interpret what lies before them. Much criticism of Snow objectively analyzes the material interrelationships in his work, ignoring viewer participation, and implicitly giving the artist control of the view. However, what if the “who” is addressed from the perspective of the viewer, who is looking across a gap created by concrete representation, time, place, experience and, perhaps, gender? How then can it remain objective? Following on writers such as Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida and Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Figuring Redemption questions the proposal that the contemporary sense of self is “fallen” as a result of modern technology, but can be redeemed in some part by certain kinds of visual art. Original in its positioning of interpretive and critical writing on the side of an embodied viewer, this book rejuvenates Snow criticism by going beyond discussions of materials and operation or of loss and distancing due to mediation. By alternating personal performance writing with objective analysis, the text participates in the destabilizing process of questioning self-recognition that Snow’s practice initiates.

Author : Amy Ione
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789042016750

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Innovation and Visualization by Amy Ione Pdf

Amy Ione's Innovation and Visualization is the first in detail account that relates the development of visual images to innovations in art, communication, scientific research, and technological advance. Integrated case studies allow Ione to put aside C.P. Snow's "two culture" framework in favor of cross-disciplinary examples that refute the science/humanities dichotomy. The themes, which range from cognitive science to illuminated manuscripts and media studies, will appeal to specialists (artists, art historians, cognitive scientists, etc.) interested in comparing our image saturated culture with the environments of earlier eras. The scope of the examples will appeal to the generalist.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442611696

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Encyclopedia of Media and Communication by Marcel Danesi Pdf

The first comprehensive encyclopedia for the growing fields of media and communication studies, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication is an essential resource for beginners and seasoned academics alike. Contributions from over fifty experts and practitioners provide an accessible introduction to these disciplines' most important concepts, figures, and schools of thought – from Jean Baudrillard to Tim Berners Lee, and podcasting to Peircean semiotics. Detailed and up-to-date, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication synthesizes a wide array of works and perspectives on the making of meaning. The appendix includes timelines covering the whole historical record for each medium, from either antiquity or their inception to the present day. Each entry also features a bibliography linking readers to relevant resources for further reading. The most coherent treatment yet of these fields, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication promises to be the standard reference text for the next generation of media and communication students and scholars.