Imaging Identity

Author : Melinda Hinkson
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781760460419

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Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical reference points, these essays consider why portraits continue to have such galvanising appeal and perform fundamental work across so many social settings. This multidisciplinary enquiry brings together artists, art historians, art theorists and anthropologists working with a variety of media. Authors look beyond conventional ideas of the portrait to the wider cultural contexts, governmental practices and intimate experiences that shape relationships between persons and pictures. Their shared purpose centres on a commitment to understanding the power of images to draw people into their worlds. Imaging Identity tracks a fundamental symbiosis — to grapple with the workings of images is to understand something vital of what it is to be human.

Author : Johannes Riquet,Martin Heusser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783030217747

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This volume explores the many facets and ongoing transformations of our visual identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its chapters engage with the constitution of personal, national and cultural identities at the intersection of the verbal and the visual across a range of media. They are attentive to how the medialities and (im)materialities of modern image culture inflect our conceptions of identity, examining the cultural and political force of literature, films, online video messages, rap songs, selfies, digital algorithms, social media, computer-generated images, photojournalism and branding, among others. They also reflect on the image theories that emerged in the same time span—from early theorists such as Charles S. Peirce to twentieth-century models like those proposed by Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida as well as more recent theories by Jacques Rancière, W. J. T. Mitchell and others. The contributors of Imaging Identity come from a wide range of disciplines including literary studies, media studies, art history, tourism studies and semiotics. The book will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership interested in contemporary visual culture and image theory.

Author : R. Bruce Elder
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781554586776

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Image and Identity by R. Bruce Elder Pdf

What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the culture in which we live? In his new book A Body of Vision, R. Bruce Elder situates contemporary poetic and cinematic body images in their cultural context. Elder examines how recent artists have tried to recognize and to convey primordial forms of experiences. He proposes the daring thesis that in their efforts to do so, artists have resorted to gnostic models of consciousness. He argues that the attempt to convey these primordial modes of awareness demands a different conception of artistic meaning from any of those that currently dominate contemporary critical discussion. By reworking theories and speech in highly original ways, Elder formulates this new conception. The works of Brakhage, Artaud, Schneeman, Cohen and others lie naked under Elder’s razor-sharp dissecting knife and he exposes the essence of their work, cutting deeply into the themes and theses from which the works are derived. His remarks on the gaps in contemporary critical practices will likely become the focus of much debate.

Author : Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469640716

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Picturing Identity by Hertha D. Sweet Wong Pdf

In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers and artists who employ a mix of written and visual forms of self-narration. Combining approaches from autobiography studies and visual studies, Wong argues that, in grappling with the breakdown of stable definitions of identity and unmediated representation, these writers-artists experiment with hybrid autobiography in image and text to break free of inherited visual-verbal regimes and revise painful histories. These works provide an interart focus for examining the possibilities of self-representation and self-narration, the boundaries of life writing, and the relationship between image and text. Wong considers eight writers-artists, including comic-book author Art Spiegelman; Faith Ringgold, known for her story quilts; and celebrated Indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko. Wong shows how her subjects formulate webs of intersubjectivity shaped by historical trauma, geography, race, and gender as they envision new possibilities of selfhood and fresh modes of self-narration in word and image.

Author : Susan Pitchford,Jafar Jafari
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780080466187

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Identity Tourism by Susan Pitchford,Jafar Jafari Pdf

To imagine a nation, nationalists must construct a national story about their history and culture that defines them as a people, and counters the negative story circulated by their enemies. This book examines the role of tourism in the construction of national identity.

Author : James Clear
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735211308

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Atomic Habits by James Clear Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million copies sold! Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; design your environment to make success easier; get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

Author : Peter S. Forsaith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351608466

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Image, Identity and John Wesley by Peter S. Forsaith Pdf

The face of John Wesley (1703–91), the Methodist leader, became one of the most familiar images in the English-speaking and transatlantic worlds through the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After the dozen or so painted portraits made during his lifetime came numbers of posthumous portraits and moralising ‘scene paintings’, and hundreds of variations of prints. It was calculated that six million copies were produced of one print alone – an 1827 portrait by John Jackson R.A. as frontispiece for a hymn book. Illustrated by nearly one hundred images, many in colour, with a comprehensive appendix listing known Wesley images, this book offers a much-needed comprehensive and critical survey of one of the most influential religious and public figures of eighteenth-century Britain. Besides chapters on portraits from the life and after, scene paintings and prints, it explores aspects of Wesley’s (and Methodism’s) attitudes to art, and the personality cult which gathered around Wesley as Methodism expanded globally. It will be of interest to art historians as a treatment of an individual sitter and subject, as well as to scholars engaged in Wesley and Methodist studies. It is also significant for the field of material studies, given the spread and use of the image, on artefacts as well as on paper.

Author : Michael Wintle
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042020641

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Image Into Identity by Michael Wintle Pdf

The pervading theme of this book is the construction and allocation of identity, especially through images and imagery. The essays analyse how the dominant social discourses and imageries construct identity or assign subject positions in relation to the categories of race, nation, region, gender and language. The volume is designed to inform the study of those categories in cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy and history. Its coverage is geographically global, multidisciplinary, and theoretically eclectic, but also accessible. The authors include both established and rising scholars from historical, literary, media, gender and cultural studies. This innovative collection will appeal to all those who are interested in the mechanisms of constructing and evolving personal and group identities, in past and present.

Author : Simon Anholt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230251281

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Places by Simon Anholt Pdf

Place branding is happening. A new field of practice and study is in existence and whatever we choose to call it there can no longer be any doubt that it is with us. This collection of intuitive and well-reserached articles examines how places and regions see themselves, and how they reflect this in their branding.

Author : Melinda Hinkson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:973553726

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Author : Diana Ingenhoff,Candace White,Alexander Buhmann,Spiro Kiousis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351984423

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Bridging Disciplinary Perspectives of Country Image Reputation, Brand, and Identity by Diana Ingenhoff,Candace White,Alexander Buhmann,Spiro Kiousis Pdf

Country image and related constructs, such as country reputation, brand, and identity, have been subjects of debate in fields such as marketing, psychology, sociology, communication, and political science. This volume provides an overview of current scholarship, places related research interests across disciplines in a common context, and illustrates connections among the constructs. Discussing how different scholarly perspectives can be applied to answer a broad range of related research questions, this volume aims to contribute to the emergence of a more theoretical, open, and interdisciplinary study of country image, reputation, brand, and identity.

Author : El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793612663

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Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania by El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed Pdf

In modern-day Mauritania, as in several multilingual states, tensions over language policy and identity between the two ethnic groups—Arab and afro-Mauritanian—have been flaring ever since the nation’s independence. In Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions, El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed investigates language policy and identity in this North African country. Moulaye Ahmed traces the past and the present Mauritania’s identities and language policies and reveals Mauritanians’ language policy preferences and the relationship between their identities and their preferences.

Author : Angelia Wagner,Joanna Everitt
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774860581

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Gendered Mediation by Angelia Wagner,Joanna Everitt Pdf

Despite decades of women’s participation in politics, the gender identities of Canadian politicians continue to attract media and public attention and shape the way they are perceived and evaluated. Gendered Mediation takes an original approach to the study of gender and political communication by examining the implications of intersecting notions of gender, sexuality, race, age, and class deployed by politicians, journalists, and citizens in Canadian politics. Building upon the gendered mediation thesis, leading scholars argue that political communication and reporting still reinforces impressions of politics as a masculine domain. Their findings have profound implications for democracy not only in Canada but also for democratic political systems elsewhere.

Author : Heather Norris Nicholson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0739105213

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Screening Culture by Heather Norris Nicholson Pdf

The lives of Indigenous peoples have long been framed for the outside world by others' cinematic gaze. But during the past thirty years, North America's Indigenous image-makers, particularly in Canada, have used the changing technologies of film, video, television, and computer to present their peoples' histories, identities, and perspectives. This edited collection of essays, conversations, and interviews combines Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices as it sets changing representations of Indigenous people on screen against broader socio-cultural, ideological, and economic considerations.

Author : Matthew Drever
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199916337

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Image, Identity, and the Forming of the Augustinian Soul by Matthew Drever Pdf

Through examination of Augustine's account of the human relation to God, Matthew Drever finds a crucial resource for a religious reorientation and revaluation of the human person,