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Rendering Nature

Author : Marguerite S. Shaffer,Phoebe S. K. Young
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812291452

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Rendering Nature by Marguerite S. Shaffer,Phoebe S. K. Young Pdf

We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival—health, sustenance, shelter—or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessary and unnecessary increases, understanding how nature and culture are interconnected matters more than ever. Bridging the fields of environmental history and American studies, Rendering Nature examines the surprising interconnections between nature and culture in distinct places, times, and contexts over the course of American history. Divided into four themes—animals, bodies, places, and politics—the essays span a diverse array of locations and periods: from antebellum slave society to atomic testing sites, from gorillas in Central Africa to river runners in the Grand Canyon, from white sun-tanning enthusiasts to Japanese American incarcerees, from taxidermists at the 1893 World's Fair to tents on Wall Street in 2011. Together they offer new perspectives and conceptual tools that can help us better understand the historical realities and current paradoxes of our environmental predicament. Contributors: Thomas G. Andrews, Connie Y. Chiang, Catherine Cocks, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Finis Dunaway, John Herron, Andrew Kirk, Frieda Knobloch, Susan A. Miller, Brett Mizelle, Marguerite S. Shaffer, Phoebe S. K. Young.

Mediating Nature

Author : Sidney I. Dobrin,Sean Morey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780429678165

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Mediating Nature by Sidney I. Dobrin,Sean Morey Pdf

Mediating Nature considers how technology acts as a mediating device in the construction and circulation of images that inform how we see and know nature. Scholarship in environmental communication has focused almost exclusively on verbal rather than visual rhetoric, and this book engages ecocritical and ecocompositional inquiry to shift focus onto the making of images. Contributors to this dynamic collection focus their efforts on the intersections of digital media and environmental/ecological thinking. Part of the book’s larger argument is that analysis of mediations of nature must develop more critical tools of analysis toward the very mediating technologies that produce such media. That is, to truly understand mediations of nature, one needs to understand the creation and production of those mediations, right down to the algorithms, circuit boards, and power sources that drive mediating technologies. Ultimately, Mediating Nature contends that ecological literacy and environmental politics are inseparable from digital literacies and visual rhetorics. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of Ecocriticism, Ecocomposition, Media Ecology, Visual Rehtoric, and Digital Literacy Studies.

Rendering in Pen and Ink

Author : Arthur L. Guptill
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780307831880

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Arthur L. Guptill's classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject of ink drawing. This is a book designed to delight and instruct anyone who draws with pen and ink, from the professional artist to the amateur and hobbyist. It is of particular interest to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, industrial designers, illustrators, and renderers. Contents include a review of materials and tools of rendering; handling the pen and building tones; value studies; kinds of outline and their uses; drawing objects in light and shade; handling groups of objects; basic principles of composition; using photographs, study of the work of well-known artists; on-the-spot sketching; representing trees and other landscape features; drawing architectural details; methods of architectural rendering; examination of outstanding examples of architectural rendering; solving perspective and other rendering problems; handling interiors and their accessories; and finally, special methods of working with pen including its use in combination with other media. The book is profusely illustrated with over 300 drawings that include the work of famous illustrators and renderers of architectural subjects such as Rockwell Kent, Charles Dana Gibson, James Montgomery Flagg, Willy Pogany, Reginald Birch, Harry Clarke, Edward Penfield, Joseph Clement Coll, F.L. Griggs, Samuel V. Chamberlain, Louis C. Rosenberg, John Floyd Yewell, Chester B. Price, Robert Lockwood, Ernest C. Peixotto, Harry C. Wilkinson, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and Birch Burdette Long. Best of all, Arthur Guptill enriches the text with drawings of his own.

Rendering Life Molecular

Author : Natasha Myers
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375630

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What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist and wriggle as they carry out the activities that keep cells alive. Figuring out how to make these unruly substances visible, tangible, and workable is a challenging task, one that is not readily automated, even by the fastest computers. Natasha Myers explores what protein modelers must do to render three-dimensional, atomic-resolution models of these lively materials. Rendering Life Molecular shows that protein models are not just informed by scientific data: model building entangles a modeler’s entire sensorium, and modelers must learn to feel their way through the data in order to interpret molecular forms. Myers takes us into protein modeling laboratories and classrooms, tracking how gesture, affect, imagination, and intuition shape practices of objectivity. Asking, ‘What is life becoming in modelers' hands?’ she tunes into the ways they animate molecules through their moving bodies and other media. In the process she amplifies an otherwise muted liveliness inflecting mechanistic accounts of the stuff of life.

RENDERING OF NATURE IN EARLY GREEK ART

Author : EMANUEL. LOEWY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033675059

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The Irish Monthly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081683991

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Rendering French Realism

Author : Lawrence R. Schehr
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804780162

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Rendering French Realism by Lawrence R. Schehr Pdf

Realist novels are usually seen as verisimilar representations of the world, and even when that verisimilitude is critically examined (as it has been by Marxist and feminist critics), the criticism has referred to extra-literary matters, such as bourgeois ideology or defects in the portrayal of women. This book takes as its thesis that the point defining realism is the point at which the processes of representation break down, a sort of black hole of textuality, a rent in the tissue. The author argues that our notions of continuity, of readability, of representability, or our ideas about unity and ideological shift—or even our notions of what is hidden, occulted, or absent—all come from the nineteenth-century realist model itself. Instead of assuming representability, the author argues that we should look at places where the texts do not continue the representationalist model, where there is a sudden falling off, an abyss. Instead of seeing that point as a shortcoming, the author argues that it is equal to the mimetic successes of representation. After an initial chapter dealing with the limits and ruptures of textuality, the book considers the work of Stendhal, from its early state as a precursor to the later realism to La Chartreuse de Parme, which shows how the act of communication for Stendhal is always made of silences, gaps, and interruptions. The author then reads several works of Balzac, showing how he, while setting up the praxes of continuity on which his oeuvre depends, ruptures the works at various strategic points. In a chapter entitled "Romantic Interruptions," works of Nerval and the younger Dumas, seemingly unrelated to the realist project, are shown to be marked by the ideological, representational, and semiotic assumptions that produced Balzac. The book concludes with Flaubert, looking both at how Flaubert incessantly makes things "unfit" and how critics, even the most perspicacious postmodern ones, often try to smooth over the permanent crisis of rupture that is the sign of Flaubert's writing.

An Essay on the Proper Rendering of the Words Elohim and Θεος into the Chinese Language

Author : William Jones BOONE (Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States to China.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019393555

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An Essay on the Proper Rendering of the Words Elohim and Θεος into the Chinese Language by William Jones BOONE (Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States to China.) Pdf

The British Journal of Photography

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Photography
ISBN : OXFORD:555080583

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The National Quarterly Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : NYPL:33433081643136

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Rendering to Caesar the Things that are God's

Author : Stephen McDowell
Publisher : Providence Foundation
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781887456234

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