Visual Worlds

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199390915
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Worlds written by James Elkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A next-generation college textbook that introduces Visual Culture in the arts and sciences"--

Author : Roberto Casati
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262550849
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visual World of Shadows written by Roberto Casati and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh examine how the perception of shadows, as studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. Shadows are at once a massive problem for vision—which must distinguish them from objects or material features of objects—and a resource, signaling the presence, location, shape, and size of objects. Casati and Cavanagh draw up an inventory of information retrievable from shadows, showing their amazing variety. They present an overview of the visual system, distinguishing between measurement and inference. They discuss the shadow mission, the work done by the visual brain to parse, and perhaps discard, the information from shadows; shadow ownership, the association of a shadow with the object that casts it; shadow labeling, the visual system's ability to tell shadows from nonshadows; and the shadow concept, our knowledge about shadows as a category. Casati and Cavanagh then apply the theoretical apparatus they have developed for shadows to other phenomena: illumination, reflection, and transparency. Finally, they examine the art of the shadow, paying tribute to artists' exploration of shadow, analyzing a series of artworks (reproduced in color) from a rich and fascinating art historical corpus.

Author : John R Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134232780
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Worlds written by John R Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the emergence of new tools and conventions. Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume contains a collection of essays by internationally renowned artists and scholars from a variety of fields (including art history, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, film and television studies, intellectual history and sociology). It was conceived to address a bold query: how is our experience and understanding of vision and visual form changing under pressure from the various social, economic and cultural factors that are linked under the term 'globalization'. The essays overlap in their considerations of the tensions between cultures and worlds, political life, everyday social experience, and war. The resulting conversation that develops between the chapters touches on points from many visual worlds, and provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today. This book will attract readers from a wide range of academic disciplines and will especially be valuable as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in visual culture and cultural studies.

Author : Klaus Berndl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Geographic Visual History of the World written by Klaus Berndl and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Ulla Autenrieth
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visual Worlds of Social Network Sites written by Ulla Autenrieth and published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. This book was released on 2011 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central form of communication on social network sites (sns) is the communication with and through images. Accordingly, the present volume highlights images and image-based communication on sns, such as Facebook, and on nightlife platforms, such as Tilllate. First, the authors analyze the two central image categories in depth - profile images and photo albums. What follows is the portrayal of dramaturgical and staging strategies of the (semi) professional photography on the nightlife platforms, which leads to an evaluation of the importance of the international glamour photography as a parameter of private photographic self-expression. Other questions that the authors ponder in the volume are: Which functions and meanings do images have for the communications between users on social network sites? To what extent could certain design characteristics in the image-based communication on sns establish themselves as prototypical staging patterns? Which staging traditions are followed thereby? Which staging strategies are followed on different online platforms by the users' (self) visualizations?

Author : Adnan Madani
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3956795377
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Cultures as World Forming written by Adnan Madani and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the world—and the world of visual culture in particular—creates itself in a creative act that knows no economic return. How does the world form itself? How does it create itself as a world? And how do we understand the role of the visual in this regard? Most responses to these questions within cultural theory and visual culture refer to the rise of globalization, thus highlighting the acceleration of exchanges, the proliferation of information and communication devices, and the multiplication of globally circulated goods and images that characterize the world we live in. Visual Cultures as World Forming takes a different approach by focusing on the taking place of the world, a creative act that knows no economic return. This taking place does not lead to more proliferation of goods, additional financial exchanges, further communications, or an increase in the distribution of visual material, but leads to the continued “worlding” of the world. This approach is predominantly, but not exclusively, inspired by the work of Jean-Luc Nancy. Through a reading of his work and of some of his contemporaries both inside and outside of the Western canon, Madani and Martinon attempt to expose how the world—and the world of visual culture in particular—creates itself and the ways in which each one of us is embodying this creation without economy. Copublished with Goldsmiths, University of London

Author : Pamela B. Childers
Publisher : Boynton/Cook
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ARTiculating written by Pamela B. Childers and published by Boynton/Cook. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual plays a central role in multimediated, computerized culture. The question is: how can we exploit the intersections between the visual and the verbal to improve learning? This text explores ways to capitalize on visually connected pedagogy.

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Publisher : Ivy Press
ISBN 13 : 1782400230
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 3 Minute JRR Tolkien: A Visual Biography of The World's Most Reve written by and published by Ivy Press. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Peter Jackson’s cinematic hobbits set forth, 3-Minute Tolkien celebrates the enduring influence of the world’s most revered fantasy writer. It offers a readable, absorbing structure, dividing J.R.R. Tolkien’s life and cultural contribution into 60 neat portions, every one digestible in a mere three minutes: 20 mini-sections each on Life, Work and Influence. From a childhood inventing new languages in the sylvan landscape of the Severn valley, through a First World War that saw him witness the horrors of the Somme, to academic success founded on a passion for Old English tales, we trace Tolkien’s life and look at the way in which it informs his creation of imaginary worlds so intricately mapped that modern readers, writers and artists continue to explore them in a quest for their myths, monsters and meaning.

Author : Donald L. Brake
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Visual History of the English Bible written by Donald L. Brake and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of the translation of the Bible into English, from the fourteenth century to the twentieth century.

Author : Elena Xeni
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848883897
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating a Visual World: From Concepts to Classrooms written by Elena Xeni and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical role of visual literacies in the 21st century realm is widely acknowledged and the construction of the profile of the visual literate person as a responsible participant in the face of global challenged is a top listed goal in nowadays agenda.