Visible Signs

Author : David Crow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350164949

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Visible Signs by David Crow Pdf

Basic semiotic theories are taught in most art schools as part of a contextual studies program, but many students find it difficult to understand how these ideas might impact on their own practice. Visible Signs tackles this problem by introducing key theories and concepts, such as signs and signifiers, and language and speech, within the framework of visual communication. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular facet of semiotic theory, with inspiring examples from graphic design, typography, illustration, advertising and art to illustrate the ideas discussed in the text. Creative exercises at the end of the book will help exemplify these ideas through practical application. The fourth edition of Visible Signs includes new imagery and updated exercises, as well as coverage of propaganda, diversity in 'neutral' communication (like emojis), and issues related to social media representation.

Author : David Crow
Publisher : AVA Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9782940411429

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Visible Signs (Second Edition) by David Crow Pdf

"Visible Signs" explains semiotic terms and theories in relation to visual communication, with illustrative examples taken from contemporary art and design. This edition features new and revised content and includes 200 visuals created to illustrate the ideas discussed within the book.

Author : David Crow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474253857

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Visible Signs by David Crow Pdf

Basic semiotic theories are taught in most art schools as part of a contextual studies program, but many students find it difficult to understand how these ideas might impact on their own practice. Visible Signs tackles this problem by introducing key theories and concepts, such as signs and signifiers, and language and speech, within the framework of visual communication. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular facet of semiotic theory, with inspiring examples from graphic design, typography, illustration, advertising and art to illustrate the ideas discussed in the text. Creative exercises at the end of the book will help exemplify these ideas through practical application. The third edition of Visible Signs features new material from international designers and new creative exercises to accompany each chapter. This new edition also features a new design and layout.

Author : Paul A. Kolers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781468410686

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Processing of Visible Language by Paul A. Kolers Pdf

The second symposium on processing visible language constituted a different "mix" of participants from the first. Greater emphasis was given to the design of language, both in its historical development and in its current display; and to practical questions associated with machine-implementation oflanguage, in the interactions of person and computer, and in the characteristics of the physical and environmental objects that affect the interaction. Another change was that a special session on theory capped the proceedings. Psychologists remained heavily involved, however, both as contributors to and as discussants of the work pre sented. The motivation of the conferences remains one of bringing together graphic designers, engineers, and psychologists concerned with the display and acquisition of visible language. The papers separately tended to emphasize the one of the three disciplines that mark their authors' field of endeavor, but are constructed to be general rather than parochial. Moreover, within the three disciplines, papers emphasized either the textual or the more pictorial aspects. For example, a session on writing systems ranged from principles that seem to characterize all such systems to specific papers on ancient Egyptian writing, modern Korean, and English shorthand. The complementary session on the nontextual media opened with a discussion of general principles of pictorial communication and included papers on communicating instructions, general information, or religious belief through designs and other pictorial forms, as well as a discussion. of misrepresentation.

Author : Marija Dalbello,Mary Shaw
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813554556

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Visible Writings by Marija Dalbello,Mary Shaw Pdf

Exploring the concept and history of visual and graphic epistemologies, this engrossing collection of essays by artists, curators, and scholars provides keen insights into the many forms of connection between visibility and legibility. With more than 130 color and black-and-white photographs, Visible Writings sheds new light on the visual dimensions of writing as well as writing's interaction with images in ways that affect our experiences of reading and seeing. Multicultural in character and historical in range, essays discuss pre-Colombian Mesoamerican scripts, inscriptions on ancient Greek vases, medieval illuminations, Renaissance prints, Enlightenment concepts of the legible, and the Western "reading" of Chinese ideograms. A rich array of modern forms, including comics, poster art, typographic signs, scribblings in writers' manuscripts, anthropomorphic statistical pictograms, the street writings of 9/11, intersections between poetry and painting, the use of color in literary texts, and the use of writing in visual art are also addressed. Visible Writings reaches outside the traditional venues of literature and art history into topics that consider design, history of writing, philosophy of language, and the emerging area of visual studies. Marija Dalbello, Mary Shaw, and the other contributors offer both scholars and those with a more casual interest in literature and art the opportunity, simply stated, to see the writing on the wall.

Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226165019

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The Visible Word by Johanna Drucker Pdf

Drucker skillfully traces the development of this critical position, suggesting a methodology closer to the actual practices of the early avant-garde artists based on a rereading of their critical and theoretical writings. After reviewing theories of signification, the production of meaning, and materiality, she analyzes the work of four poets active in the typographic experimentation of the 1910s and 1920s: Ilia Zdanevich, Filippo Marinetti, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Tristan Tzara. Drucker explores the context for experimental typography in terms of printing, handwriting, and other practices concerned with the visual representation of language. Her book concludes with a brief look at the ways in which experimental techniques of the early avant-garde were transformed in both literary work and in applications to commercial design throughout the 1920s and early 1930s.

Author : Linda Mart?n Alcoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199881314

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Visible Identities by Linda Mart?n Alcoff Pdf

In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Mart?n Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they doomed to oppositional politics, nor do they inevitably lead to conformism, essentialism, or reductive approaches to judging others. Identities are historical formations and their political implications are open to interpretation. But identities such as race and gender also have a powerful visual and material aspect that eliminativists and social constructionists often underestimate. Visible Identities offers a careful analysis of the political and philosophical worries about identity and argues that these worries are neither supported by the empirical data nor grounded in realistic understandings of what identities are. Mart?n Alcoff develops a more realistic characterization of identity in general through combining phenomenological approaches to embodiment with hermeneutic concepts of the interpretive horizon. Besides addressing the general contours of social identity, Mart?n Alcoff develops an account of the material infrastructure of gendered identity, compares and contrasts gender identities with racialized ones, and explores the experiential aspects of racial subjectivity for both whites and non-whites. In several chapters she looks specifically at Latino identity as well, including its relationship to concepts of race, the specific forms of anti-Latino racism, and the politics of mestizo or hybrid identity.

Author : S. Shimomura
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137105219

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Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature by S. Shimomura Pdf

This study traces how medieval audiences judge bodies from Doomsday visions to beauty contests. Employing cultural and formalist approaches, this study breaks new ground on the historical obsession about ends and changes, reflected in different genres spanning several hundred years.

Author : Garth Heckman
Publisher : Standard Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0784719462

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Burn this Book by Garth Heckman Pdf

This 30-day devotional for junior high and early high school teens causes them to confront relevant issues in their lives, then provides a strong visual demonstration of what it means to offer their lives as a burnt offering to God.

Author : Wendy Kozol
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452942780

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Distant Wars Visible by Wendy Kozol Pdf

In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to such enduring questions about conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy, whether in support of U.S. military objectives or in critique of the nation at war. At the book’s center is what author Wendy Kozol calls an analytic of ambivalence—a critical approach to the tensions between spectacle and empathy provoked by gazing at military atrocities and trauma. Through this approach, Distant Wars Visible uses key concepts such as the politics of recoil, the notion of looking elsewhere, skeptical documents, and ethical spectatorship to examine multiple visual cultural practices depicting war, on and off the battlefield, from the 1999 NATO bombings in Kosovo to the present. Kozol’s analysis draws from collections of family photographs, human rights photography, independent film production, photojournalism, and other examples of war’s visual culture, as well as extensive visual evidence of the ways in which U.S. militarism operates to maintain geopolitical dominance—from Fallujah and Abu Ghraib to the most recent drone strikes in Pakistan. Throughout, Kozol reveals how factors such as gender, race, and sexuality construct competing visualizations of identity in a range of media from graphic narrative and film to conflict photography and battlefield souvenirs—and how contingencies and contradictions in visual culture shape the politics and ethics of witnessing.

Author : Tristan Gooley
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781615191550

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The Natural Navigator by Tristan Gooley Pdf

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.

Author : Shirley Riley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134943814

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Group Process Made Visible by Shirley Riley Pdf

This book introduces the reader to the approach and general philosophy of the use of art as an additional language in group therapy. It demonstrates the usefulness of the language of art in enabling group therapists and their clients to understand group members' perceptions of constructs and realities.

Author : Alexander Bain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Ethics
ISBN : IOWA:31858050053457

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Psychology and history of philosophy by Alexander Bain Pdf

Author : James Scott Rollo
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781622304608

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In-Visible Simplicity by James Scott Rollo Pdf

There is knowledge, understanding, and spiritual illumination in this book never seen or written, ever, in the recorded commentary of biblical history. This is a phenomenon of the moment arising out of Words in Daniel's book that have been "closed up and sealed till the time of the end". The challenge confronting every Christian, regardless of his spiritual age or position, is in recognizing that there is much more to know about God than we know but to know more we must be willing to continually repent and change our minds when the Lord allows us to see a clearer vision of the Truth. Those who set aside every influence outside of the simple literal Words of inspired scripture receive knowledge and understanding unavailable from any other source. Theologians of every degree have never seen the thoughts and observations illuminated in the precept upon precept chapters of this book. If we allow the theologian, tradition, or the worldly church to control our mind, we will miss the blessing of simply believing the purity of the Word. God gave us a good mind and He expects us to use it to His glory by understanding the Words He wants us to hear. The In-Visible Truth is an immeasurable blessing, hidden in simplicity. Identifying doctrinal errors in the church along with seeing biblical specifics of RAPTURE carries the believer far beyond the significance of knowing when Jesus will come again. The Lord is right on time every time and it is now time that we understand many things that the He did not allow us to understand in the past. Be blessed. James Scott Rollo

Author : Lawrence Raab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322741735

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Visible Signs by Lawrence Raab Pdf