Times Visible Surface

Author : Michael Gubser
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814337465
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time's Visible Surface written by Michael Gubser and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By expanding our understanding of Riegl and his intellectual context, Time’s Visible Surface demonstrates that Riegl is a pivotal figure in cultural theory and that fin-de-siècle Vienna holds continued relevance for today’s cultural and philosophical debates.

Author : Mike Gubser
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814332085
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time's Visible Surface written by Mike Gubser and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alois Riegl's art history has influenced thinkers as diverse as Erwin Panofsky, Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Paul Feyerabend, Gilles Deleuze, and F'lix Guattari. One of the founders of the modern discipline of art history, Riegl is best known for his theories of representation. Yet his inquiries into the role of temporality in artistic production-including his argument that art conveys a culture's consciousness of time-show him to be a more wide-ranging and influential commentator on historiographical issues than has been previously acknowledged. In Time's Visible Surface, Michael Gubser presents Riegl's work as a sustained examination of the categories of temporality and history in art. Supported by a rich exploration of Riegl's writings, Gubser argues that Riegl viewed artworks as registering historical time visibly in artistic forms. Gubser's discussion of Riegl's academic milieu also challenges the widespread belief that Austrian modernism adopted a self-consciously ahistorical worldview. By analyzing the works of Riegl's professors and colleagues at the University of Vienna, Gubser shows that Riegl's interest in temporality, from his early articles on calendar art through later volumes on the Roman art industry and Dutch portraiture, fit into a broad discourse on time, history, and empiricism that engaged Viennese thinkers such as the philosopher Franz Brentano, the historian Theodor von Sickel, and the art historian Franz Wickhoff. By expanding our understanding of Riegl and his intellectual context, Time's Visible Surface demonstrates that Riegl is a pivotal figure in cultural theory and that fin-de-si'cle Vienna holds continued relevance for today's cultural and philosophical debates.

Author : Michael Donald Gubser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time's Visible Surface written by Michael Donald Gubser and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Giuliana Bruno
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611483X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surface written by Giuliana Bruno and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the place of materiality—the expression or condition of physical substance—in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality in the contemporary world. Arguing that materiality is not a question of the materials themselves but rather the substance of material relations, Bruno investigates the space of those relations, examining how they appear on the surface of different media—on film and video screens, in gallery installations, or on the skins of buildings and people. The object of visual studies, she contends, goes well beyond the image and engages the surface as a place of contact between people and art objects. As Bruno threads through these surface encounters, she unveils the fabrics of the visual—the textural qualities of works of art, whether manifested on canvas, wall, or screen. Illuminating the modern surface condition, she notes how façades are becoming virtual screens and the art of projection is reinvented on gallery walls. She traverses the light spaces of artists Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Tacita Dean, and Anthony McCall; touches on the textured surfaces of Isaac Julien’s and Wong Kar-wai’s filmic screens; and travels across the surface materiality in the architectural practices of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Herzog & de Meuron to the art of Doris Salcedo and Rachel Whiteread, where the surface tension of media becomes concrete. In performing these critical operations on the surface, she articulates it as a site in which different forms of mediation, memory, and transformation can take place. Surveying object relations across art, architecture, fashion, design, film, and new media, Surface is a magisterial account of contemporary visual culture.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Author : Vicki Bruce
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1136917144
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Perception written by Vicki Bruce and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in vision. In Part I, the treatment of visual physiology has been extensively revised with an updated account of retinal processing, a new section explaining the principles of spatial and temporal filtering which underlie discussions in later chapters, and an up-to-date account of the primate visual pathway. Part II contains four largely new chapters which cover recent psychophysical evidence and computational model of early vision: edge detection, perceptual grouping, depth perception, and motion perception. The models discussed are extensively integrated with physiological evidence. All other chapters in Parts II, III, and IV have also been thoroughly updated.

Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light Science for Leisure Hours, Second Series written by Richard Anthony Proctor and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Shoemaker
Publisher : Zonderkidz
ISBN 13 : 0310735025
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Below the Surface written by Tim Shoemaker and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is wrong with Cooper. He’s plagued by a fear he doesn’t understand and can’t control. Cooper just wants to escape, and a summer vacation aboard the restored cabin cruiser, The Getaway, with best friends Gordy, Hiro, and Lunk seems like the perfect way to do it. Two weeks of fun—with no mysteries or life-and-death danger. That’s the plan. But their plans are shattered the very first night when they witness a murder. Or did they? Despite their intentions of leaving the investigation to the police, narrow misses and creepy encounters lure them in. Is there really a body floating in the underwater currents of the lake? The closer they get to the truth, the deeper into danger they get. Too late they see the trap. Now each of them must face their own buried fears . . . just below the surface.

Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light Science for Leisure Hours...Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural Phenomena, &c written by Richard Anthony Proctor and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reynolds Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684813394
Total Pages : 516 pages
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Download or read book Surface of Earth written by Reynolds Price and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infused with the hungers and aspirations of three generations of Southerners, this breathtaking story of two families bound, then embittered, by the immoderate passions of a young woman and her older lover, is the first book in Price's masterful trilogy.