Picture Worlds

Author : David Saunders,Megan E. O'Neil
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606069066

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Picture Worlds by David Saunders,Megan E. O'Neil Pdf

This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side. Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity figure in the stories painted on the pottery produced by the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures, respectively. Picture Worlds is the first book to examine the elaborately decorated terracotta vessels of these three distinct civilizations. Although the cultures were separated by space and time, they all employed pottery as a way to tell stories, explain the world, and illustrate core myths and beliefs. Each of these painted pots is a picture world. But why did these communities reach for pottery as a primary method of visual communication? How were the vessels produced and used? In this book, experts offer introductions to the civilizations, exploring these foundational questions and examining the painted imagery. Readers will be rewarded with a better understanding of each of these ancient societies, fascinating insights into their cultural commonalities and differences, and fresh perspectives on image making and storytelling, practices that remain vibrant to this day. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from April 10 to July 29, 2024, and at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University from September 14 to December 15, 2024.

Author : Rachel Teukolsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192603562

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Picture World by Rachel Teukolsky Pdf

The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed photographs, posters, cartoons, and illustrations. These alluring objects of the Victorian parlor were miniaturized spectacles that served as portals onto phantasmagoric versions of 'the world.' Although new kinds of pictures transformed everyday life, these ephemeral items have received remarkably little scholarly attention. Picture World shines a welcome new light onto these critically neglected yet fascinating visual objects. They serve as entryways into the nineteenth century's key aesthetic concepts. Each chapter pairs a new type of picture with a foundational keyword in Victorian aesthetics, a familiar term reconceived through the lens of new media. 'Character' appears differently when considered with caricature, in the new comics and cartoons appearing in the mass press in the 1830s; likewise, the book approaches 'realism' through pictorial journalism; 'illustration' via illustrated Bibles; 'sensation' through carte-de-visite portrait photographs; 'the picturesque' by way of stereoscopic views; and 'decadence' through advertising posters. Picture World studies the aesthetic effects of the nineteenth century's media revolution: it uses the relics of a previous era's cultural life to interrogate the Victorian world's most deeply-held values, arriving at insights still relevant in our own media age.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015039589851

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Moving Picture World and View Photographer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dave Montalbano
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462836734

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The Adventures of Cinema Dave in the Florida Motion Picture World by Dave Montalbano Pdf

The Adventures of Cinema Dave is a celebration of films from the turn of the recent century. Dave Montalbano, alias Cinema Dave, wrote over 500 film reviews and interviewed Hollywood Legends such as Fay Wray, Louise Fletcher, Dyan Cannon and new talent like Josh Hutcherson, Jane Lynch and Courtney Ford. With South Florida as his home base, Cinema Dave details his growing involvement with the Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Delray Film Festivals, while covering local interest stories about individuals who contribute to the film culture. Featuring a fun introduction from Cindy Morgan, actress from Caddyshack and Tron fame, and an extensive appendix of Literary Cinema, The Adventures of Cinema Dave is a saga about one mans bibliomania and his pursuit of an entertaining story in the big cave known as cinema.

Author : Rachel Teukolsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198859734

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Picture World by Rachel Teukolsky Pdf

The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed photographs, posters, cartoons, and illustrations. These alluring objects of the Victorian parlor were miniaturized spectacles that served as portals onto phantasmagoric versions of 'the world.' Although new kinds of pictures transformed everyday life, these ephemeral items have received remarkably little scholarly attention. Picture World shines a welcome new light onto these critically neglected yet fascinating visual objects. They serve as entryways into the nineteenth century's key aesthetic concepts. Each chapter pairs a new type of picture with a foundational keyword in Victorian aesthetics, a familiar term reconceived through the lens of new media. 'Character' appears differently when considered with caricature, in the new comics and cartoons appearing in the mass press in the 1830s; likewise, the book approaches 'realism' through pictorial journalism; 'illustration' via illustrated Bibles; 'sensation' through carte-de-visite portrait photographs; 'the picturesque' by way of stereoscopic views; and 'decadence' through advertising posters. Picture World studies the aesthetic effects of the nineteenth century's media revolution: it uses the relics of a previous era's cultural life to interrogate the Victorian world's most deeply-held values, arriving at insights still relevant in our own media age.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1969-07
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118885891

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Exhibitors' Herald and Moving Picture World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
ISBN : UOM:39015068101057

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The Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, May 1st to October 30th, 1893 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Niels Frank
Publisher : Book*hug Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1897388853

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Picture World by Niels Frank Pdf

Picture Worldï¿1/2is the first complete book by the Danish poet Niels Frank to be published in English. By turns funny and serious, ironic and sincere, droll and sly, conversational and playfully inventive, it draws the reader into a set of contemplations that grows more and more complex as its elements recur, reinforcing and undercutting one another, casting light but also doubt. As a poetic sequence in twenty-four parts, this is a work of high ambition. Its signal achievement is to use an accessible voice to present a deeply nuanced composition. As the title suggests, pictures play a special role. Visual images not only serve as metaphors and similes, but appear in the form of photographs described in the poems. Reviewing photos taken during travel and sojourns abroad, the speaker feels moved to offer both narratives and thoughts that the pictures inspire. In each poem the photos are grouped according to the motifs in them ï¿1/2 windows, road signs, sunlight, etc. ï¿1/2 and the speaker describes these photos for another person, who is unfamiliar with the motifs and their stories. Only at the end of the book does the reader understand who this other person is and realize the nature of the speaker's connection to his listener.

Author : Jennifer Lynn Peterson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822378914

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Education in the School of Dreams by Jennifer Lynn Peterson Pdf

In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters. These short films, also known as "scenics," depicted tourist destinations and exotic landscapes otherwise inaccessible to most viewers. Scenics were so popular that they were briefly touted as the future of film. But despite their pervasiveness during the early twentieth century, travelogues have been overlooked by film historians and critics. In Education in the School of Dreams, Jennifer Lynn Peterson recovers this lost archive. Through innovative readings of travelogues and other nonfiction films exhibited in the United States between 1907 and 1915, she offers fresh insights into the aesthetic and commercial history of early cinema and provides a new perspective on the intersection of American culture, imperialism, and modernity in the nickelodeon era. Peterson describes the travelogue's characteristic form and style and demonstrates how imperialist ideologies were realized and reshaped through the moving image. She argues that although educational films were intended to legitimate filmgoing for middle-class audiences, travelogues were not simply vehicles for elite ideology. As a form of instructive entertainment, these technological moving landscapes were both formulaic and also wondrous and dreamlike. Considering issues of spectatorship and affect, Peterson argues that scenics produced and disrupted viewers' complacency about their own place in the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : HARVARD:HB0SGQ

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The Moving Picture World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015051610437

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The World Book Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Author : Peter Menzel,Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0871564300

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Material World by Peter Menzel,Charles C. Mann Pdf

A photo-journey through the homes and lives of 30 families, revealing culture and economic levels around the world.

Author : Ben Hatke
Publisher : First Second
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250858115

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Julia's House Goes Home by Ben Hatke Pdf

Julia and her house full of fantastic friends are on the move, from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Ben Hatke. Julia's flying house has come down to earth...and sprouted legs! Now it roams the landscape looking for the perfect spot to settle down. But just as Julia spots the Perfect Spot, off in the distance—her walking house trips! It tumbles down a steep mountain side, and Julia and her creatures are scattered across the hills while her runaway home continues rolling off on an adventure of its own. Now it's up to Julia to gather up her found family and track down her house, and maybe find that Perfect Spot once and for all. With surprises around every corner and new creatures galore, master storyteller Ben Hatke weaves a moving and satisfying final episode for Julia's House, completing the trilogy of three picture books.

Author : Tomas Bjorkman
Publisher : Perspectiva Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1912892596

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The World We Create by Tomas Bjorkman Pdf

The world is entering a new technological, social and global age and it is our ability to create meaning which will decide whether we face a bright future or a tragic decline. We are living in an unsustainable state of cultural tension. Stress and depression are becoming more common, we are destroying our environment and while the rich become richer, inequality has spread both domestically and globally. The world's entire democratic system is strained and the only 'meaningful' story left is our role as consumers. We flee to and are trapped by the gilded illusion of happiness that is dictated to us by consumerism. In The World We Create, Tomas Björkman takes readers on a journey through history, economics, sociology, developmental psychology and philosophy, to illuminate where we have come from and how we have reached this breaking point. He offers new perspectives on the world we have created and suggests how we can achieve a more meaningful, sustainable world in the future.

Author : Ben Hatke
Publisher : First Second
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250808127

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Julia's House Moves On by Ben Hatke Pdf

Julia and her house full of fantastic friends are back for another sweet adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ben Hatke in Julia's House Moves On. Julia's house is restless. Julia and her family of lost creatures are ready to move on. But where will they go? And how will they get there? Don’t worry—Julia has a plan for that! Julia always has a plan. But when Julia's plans all fail... What's left for her?