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What Images Do

Author : Jan Backlund,Henrik Oxvig,Michael Renner,Martin Soberg
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788771848298

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What Images Do by Jan Backlund,Henrik Oxvig,Michael Renner,Martin Soberg Pdf

When images look like something they do so because they are different from what they resemble. This difference is not sufficiently captured by the traditional theories of representation and mimesis, and yet it is the condition for any such theory. Various contemporary image theorists have pointed out that Plato already understood that images are not what they look like. Images have their own existence which cannot be identified with a concept, but should be examined in terms of actions. This book comprises fifteen articles that investigate what images do, particularly in relation to the disciplines of architecture, design and visual arts. It claims that it is the differentiating power of images-their actions-which constitutes their capacity to look like something they are not, as well as create something that does not yet exist. What Images Do addresses the crucial role that images might play in producing and investigating what we have not yet seen or understood in and of reality.

What Do Pictures Want?

Author : W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,9 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

What Images Do

Author : Jan Bäcklund,Henrik Oxvig,Martin Søberg,Michael Renner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Reality
ISBN : 8771248552

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What Images Do by Jan Bäcklund,Henrik Oxvig,Martin Søberg,Michael Renner Pdf

When images look like something they do so because they are different from what they resemble. This difference is not sufficiently captured by the traditional theories of representation and mimesis, and yet it is the condition for any such theory. Various contemporary image theorists have pointed out that Plato already understood that images are not what they look like. Images have their own existence which cannot be identified with a concept, but should be examined in terms of actions. This book comprises fifteen articles that investigate what images do, particularly in relation to the disciplines of architecture, design and visual arts. It claims that it is the differentiating power of images -- their actions -- which constitutes their capacity to look like something they are not, as well as create something that does not yet exist. What Images Do addresses the crucial role that images might play in producing and investigating what we have not yet seen or understood in and of reality.

How Do Images Work?

Author : Christine Beier,Tim Juckes,Assaf Pinkus
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 2503595871

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How Do Images Work? by Christine Beier,Tim Juckes,Assaf Pinkus Pdf

How did historical images work and interact with their beholders and users? Drawing on the results of an international conference held in Vienna in 2018, this volume offers new perspectives on a central question for contemporary art history. The fourteen authors approach working imagery from the medieval and early modern periods in terms of its production, usage, and reception. They address wide-ranging media--architecture, sculpture, painting, metalwork, stained glass--in similarly wide-ranging contexts: from monumental installations in the most public zones of urban churches to exquisite devotional objects and illuminated books reserved for more exclusive settings. While including research from West European and American institutions, the project also engages with the distinctive scholarly traditions of Eastern Europe and Israel. In all these ways, it reflects the interests of the dedicatee Michael Viktor Schwarz, whose introductory interview lays out the parameters of the subject.

Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World

Author : Kathleen Gould Lundy
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551382319

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This powerful book helps teachers redefine an inclusive curriculum by questioning what is taught, how it is taught, to whom, and under what conditions. It offers teachers a wealth of challenging, open-ended pursuits that give students "voice" and help them better understand their world. It explores opportunities for students to connect with social justice issues in the real world through imagined experiences found in short stories, novels, plays, picture books, graphic novels, and primary source documents, such as letters.

Archæological Returns

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 186?
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : BL:A0019044176

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Parish Church Goods in Berkshire, A.D. 1552

Author : Walter Money
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Church decoration and ornament
ISBN : OXFORD:590076242

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Images of Human Nature

Author : Donald J. Munro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400859740

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Images of Human Nature by Donald J. Munro Pdf

In this volume Donald Munro, author of important studies on early and contemporary China, provides a critical analysis of the doctrines of the Sung Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200). For nearly six centuries Confucian orthodoxy was based on Chu Hsi's commentaries on Confucian classics. These commentaries were the core of the curriculum studied by candidates for the civil service in China until 1905 and provided guidelines both for personal behavior and for official policy. Munro finds the key to the complexities of Chu Hsi's thought in his mode of discourse: the structural images of family, stream of water, mirror, body, plant, and ruler. Furthermore, he discloses the basic framework of Chu Hsi's ethics and the theory of human nature that is provided by these illustrative images. As revealed by Munro, Chu Hsi's thought is polarized between family duty and a broader altruism and between obedience to external authority and self-discovery of moral truth. To understand these tensions moves us toward clarifying the meaning of each idea in the sets. The interplay of these ideas, selectively emphasized over time by later Confucians, is a background for explaining modern Chinese thought. In it, among other things, Confucianism and Marxism-Leninism co-exist. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Arresting Images

Author : Steven C. Dubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135214678

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Although contemporary art may sometimes shock us, more alarming are recent attempts to regulate its display. Drawing upon extensive interviews, a broad sampling of media accounts, legal documents and his own observations of important events, sociologist Steven Dubin surveys the recent trend in censorship of the visual arts, photography and film, as well as artistic upstarts such as video and performance art. He examines the dual meaning of arresting images--both the nature of art work which disarms its viewers and the social reaction to it. Arresting Images examines the battles which erupt when artists address such controversial issues as racial polarization, AIDS, gay-bashing and sexual inequality in their work.

New Princeton Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015013774800

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Negotiating the Nonnegotiable

Author : Daniel Shapiro
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781101626962

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Negotiating the Nonnegotiable by Daniel Shapiro Pdf

“One of the most important books of our modern era” –Amb. Jaime de Bourbon For anyone struggling with conflict, this book can transform you. Negotiating the Nonnegotiable takes you on a journey into the heart and soul of conflict, providing unique insight into the emotional undercurrents that too often sweep us out to sea. With vivid stories of his closed-door sessions with warring political groups, disputing businesspeople, and families in crisis, Daniel Shapiro presents a universally applicable method to successfully navigate conflict. A deep, provocative book to reflect on and wrestle with, this book can change your life. Be warned: This book is not a quick fix. Real change takes work. You will learn how to master five emotional dynamics that can sabotage conflict outside your awareness: 1. Vertigo: How can you avoid getting emotionally consumed in conflict? 2. Repetition compulsion: How can you stop repeating the same conflicts again and again? 3. Taboos: How can you discuss sensitive issues at the heart of the conflict? 4. Assault on the sacred: What should you do if your values feel threatened? 5. Identity politics: What can you do if others use politics against you? In our era of discontent, this is just the book we need to resolve conflict in our own lives and in the world around us.