Picturing The Language Of Images

Author : Laurence Petit
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443859332

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Picturing the Language of Images by Laurence Petit Pdf

Picturing the Language of Images is a collection of thirty-three previously unpublished essays that explore the complex and ever-evolving interaction between the verbal and the visual. The uniqueness of this volume lies in its bringing together scholars from around the world to provide a broad synchronic and diachronic exploration of the relationship between text and image, as well as a reflection on the limits of representation through a re-thinking of the very acts of reading and viewing. While covering a variety of media—such as literature, painting, photography, film and comics—across time—from the 18th century to the 21st century—this collection also provides a special focus on the work of particular authors, such as A. S. Byatt, W. G. Sebald, and Art Spiegelman.

Author : W. J. Thomas Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226532151

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The Language of Images by W. J. Thomas Mitchell Pdf

"A remarkably rich and provocative set of essays on the virtually infinite kinds of meanings generated by images in both the verbal and visual arts. Ranging from Michelangelo to Velazquez and Delacroix, from the art of the emblem book to the history of photography and film, The Language of Images offers at once new ways of thinking about the inexhaustibly complex relation between verbal and iconic representation."—James A. W. Heffernan, Dartmouth College

Author : W. J. T. Mitchell,William John Thomas Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226532321

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Picture Theory by W. J. T. Mitchell,William John Thomas Mitchell Pdf

What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.

Author : W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226245904

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What Do Pictures Want? by W. J. T. Mitchell Pdf

Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep—who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream of creating a living image—and the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, which, among other things, signifies a new and virulent form of iconoclasm. What Do Pictures Want? offers an immensely rich and suggestive account of the interplay between the visible and the readable. A work by one of our leading theorists of visual representation, it will be a touchstone for art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and philosophers alike. “A treasury of episodes—generally overlooked by art history and visual studies—that turn on images that ‘walk by themselves’ and exert their own power over the living.”—Norman Bryson, Artforum

Author : James Elkins,Maja Naef
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271072319

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What Is an Image? by James Elkins,Maja Naef Pdf

What Is an Image? raises the stakes for writing in art history, visual studies, art theory, and art criticism by questioning one of the most fundamental terms of all, the image or picture. This innovative collection gathers some of the most influential historians and theorists working on images to discuss what the visual has come to mean. Topics include concepts such as image and picture in the West and outside it; the reception and rejection of semiotics; the question of what is outside the image; the question of whether images have a distinct nature or are products of discourse, like language; the relationship between images and religious meanings; and the study of non-art images in medicine, science, and technology. Among the major writers represented in this book are Gottfried Boehm, Michael Ann Holly, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, W. J. T. Mitchell, Marie-José Mondzain, Keith Moxey, Parul Dave Mukherji, Wolfram Pichler, Alex Potts, and Adrian Rifkin.

Author : Maria Giulia Dondero
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030526207

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The Language of Images by Maria Giulia Dondero Pdf

This book deals with two fundamental issues in the semiotics of the image. The first is the relationship between image and observer: how does one look at an image? To answer this question, this book sets out to transpose the theory of enunciation formulated in linguistics over to the visual field. It also aims to clarify the gains made in contemporary visual semiotics relative to the semiology of Roland Barthes and Emile Benveniste. The second issue addressed is the relation between the forces, forms and materiality of the images. How do different physical mediums (pictorial, photographic and digital) influence visual forms? How does materiality affect the generativity of forms? On the forces within the images, the book addresses the philosophical thought of Gilles Deleuze and René Thom as well as the experiment of Aby Warburg’s Atlas Mnemosyne. The theories discussed in the book are tested on a variety of corpora for analysis, including both paintings and photographs, taken from traditional as well as contemporary sources in a variety of social sectors (arts and sciences). Finally, semiotic methodology is contrasted with the computational analysis of large collections of images (Big Data), such as the “Media Visualization” analyses proposed by Lev Manovich and Cultural Analytics in the field of Computer Science to evaluate the impact of automatic analysis of visual forms on Digital Art History and more generally on the image sciences.

Author : Ágnes Pethő
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443806275

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Words and Images on the Screen by Ágnes Pethő Pdf

The screen has never been merely a canvas for the images to be displayed but also – to quote Jean-Luc Godard – “a blank page”, a surface for inscriptions and a “stage” for all kinds of linguistic occurrences be their audible or visual. Word did not come into the world of cinema at the time of the talkies but has been a primordial medial “companion” that has shaped the cinematic experience from its very beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in the context of moving pictures covering a wide area of their interconnectedness. How can we analyse literary adaptations? What is the role of adaptations in the evolution of specific national cinemas? In what way are written texts used in films? Is the model of the word and image relations used in silent films still applicable today? What major paradigms can be discerned within the multiplicity of ways Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema plays with words and images? Are these models of modernist or postmodern cinema reflected in films of other directors like R. W. Fassbinder? How do avant-garde works deal with the word and image debate? What are the connections of animation or computer games with verbal text and narrative? What is the phenomenon of jet-setting and how does it connect to the ideological implications of the relations between the culture of books and films? What happens when Hamlet is completely rewritten reflecting the ideology of late capitalism? What happens from the point of view of literariness or rejection of literariness when films are made vehicles of national propaganda? How do words get mediated through images? These are some of the questions addressed in the present volume by in-depth case studies of cinematic intermediality or more general surveys regarding cinema’s long lasting liaisons with language or literature.

Author : John V. Kulvicki
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198847472

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Modeling the Meanings of Pictures by John V. Kulvicki Pdf

John Kulvicki explores the many ways in which pictures can be meaningful, taking inspiration from the philosophy of language. Pictures are important parts of communicative acts. They express a variety of thoughts, and they are also representations. Kulvicki shows how the meanings of pictures let us put them to a wide range of communicative uses.

Author : Andrew Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521358002

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Pictures for Language Learning by Andrew Wright Pdf

This richly illustrated book provides a valuable guide to the role of pictures and other visual materials in language teaching. It brings together a wealth of ideas on how to use pictures in a wide range of language learning situations. The first section discusses the contribution visuals can make to all the classroom settings in providing real opportunities for students to communicate, whether they are working as a class, in groups or in pairs. Sections B and C contain over 200 practical suggestions for picture-generated language work. These make use of visual materials which are readily available to teachers anywhere or illustrations which have been kept simple so that they can be copied easily. The activities can be integrated into all stages of the language teaching process and advice is given on how to adapt the ideas to suit different teaching environments. The final section describes the process of setting up a picture library and offers guidance on where to begin looking for visuals, how to categorise pictures and different methods of storage.

Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780375759222

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Reading Pictures by Alberto Manguel Pdf

This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can understand, though for thousands of years this was not the case. Today, we live in a kaleidoscopic new world of images: Is there a vocabulary we can learn in order to read these images? Is there something we can do so as not to remain passive when we flip through an illustrated book, or download images on a screen? Are there ways in which we can "read" the stories within paintings, monuments, buildings and sculptures? We say "every picture tells a story" - but does it? Taking a handful of extraordinary images - photographed, painted, built, sculpted - Alberto Manguel explores how each one attempts to tell a story that we, the viewer, must decipher or invent. A History of Love and Hate is not about art history or theory - it is about the astonishing pleasures and surprises of stories.

Author : Krešimir Purgar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317288909

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W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory by Krešimir Purgar Pdf

W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world. This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies – pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others – while systematically presenting the work of Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures. As a special feature, the book includes three comprehensive, authoritative and theoretically relevant interviews with Mitchell that focus on different stages of development of visual studies and critical iconology.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89082992264

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : K.S. Chuang,H.K. Huang,O. Ratib,A.R. Bakker,G. Witte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642765667

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Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) in Medicine by K.S. Chuang,H.K. Huang,O. Ratib,A.R. Bakker,G. Witte Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) in Medicine" held in Evian, France, October 14- 26, 1990. The program committee of the institute consisted of H.K. Huang (Director), Osman Ratib, Albert Bakker, and Gerd Witte. This institute brought together approximately 90 participants from 15 countries. These proceedings are the accumulation of eight years of research and development results in PACS by various dedicated groups throughout the world. The purpose of this institute was to review the most recent technology available for PACS and some clinical results. The readers should notice the remarkable advances in this field by comparing the contents in these proceedings with those in a previous institute on "Pictorial Information Systems in Medicine" held August 27 - September 7, 1984 in Braunlage/Harz, Federal Republic of Germany, and published as Vol. 19 in this series. The institute was organized according to four categories: PACS components and system integration, PACS and related research in various countries and manufacturing companies, clinical experience and research support, and participants' scientific communications. In PACS components, we included image acquisition, workstations, data storage and networking. In system integration, topics on interfaces between Hospital Information System (HIS), Radiology Information System (RIS) and PACS, clinical reports, the ACR/NEMA standard, databases, reliability, and system integration were discussed. This lecture series emphasized the technical detail and "how to" aspects.

Author : Reneta P. Barneva,Valentin E. Brimkov,Herbert A. Hauptman,Renato M. Natal Jorge,Joao Tavares
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642127120

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Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images by Reneta P. Barneva,Valentin E. Brimkov,Herbert A. Hauptman,Renato M. Natal Jorge,Joao Tavares Pdf

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium "Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images. Fundamentals, Methods and Applications", CompIMAGE 2010, held in Buffalo, NY, in May 2010. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on theoretical foundations of image analysis and processing; methods and applications on medical imaging, bioimaging, biometrics, and imaging in material sciences, as well as methods and applications on image reconstruction, computed tomography, and other applications.

Author : Hee-Jin Kim
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791469255

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Dogen on Meditation and Thinking by Hee-Jin Kim Pdf

Looks at Dogen’s writings on meditation and thinking.