Author: Stephen James Meredith Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Figures of speech
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The World of Imagery
Author: Stephen James Meredith Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Figures of speech
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Figures of speech
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A World of Images
Author: Laura H. Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871922304
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871922304
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Imagery of Interior Spaces
Author: Michael J. Kelly
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1950192199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
On the unstable boundaries between "interior" and "exterior," "private" and "public," and always in some way relating to a "beyond," the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature -- from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth -- reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels. This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and Émile Zola.
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1950192199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
On the unstable boundaries between "interior" and "exterior," "private" and "public," and always in some way relating to a "beyond," the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature -- from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth -- reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels. This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and Émile Zola.
How to See the World
Author: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465096018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload over 300 hours of video to YouTube; and in 2014, we took over one trillion photographs. From the funny memes that we send to our friends to the disturbing photographs we see in the news, we are consuming and producing images in quantities and ways that could never have been anticipated. In the process, we are producing a new worldview powered by changing demographics -- one where the majority of people are young, urban, and globally connected. In How to See the World, visual culture expert Nicholas Mirzoeff offers a sweeping look at history's most famous images -- from Velezquez's Las Meninas to the iconic "Blue Marble" -- to contextualize and make sense of today's visual world. Drawing on art history, sociology, semiotics, and everyday experience, he teaches us how to close read everything from astronaut selfies to Impressionist self-portraits, from Hitchcock films to videos taken by drones. Mirzoeff takes us on a journey through visual revolutions in the arts and sciences, from new mapping techniques in the seventeenth century to new painting styles in the eighteenth and the creation of film, photography, and x-rays in the nineteenth century. In today's networked world, mobile technology and social media enable us to exercise "visual activism" -- the practice of producing and circulating images to drive political and social change. Whether we are looking at pictures showing the effects of climate change on natural and urban landscapes or an fMRI scan demonstrating neurological addiction, Mirzoeff helps us to find meaning in what we see. A powerful and accessible introduction to this new visual culture, How to See the World reveals how images shape our lives, how we can harness their power for good, and why they matter to us all.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465096018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload over 300 hours of video to YouTube; and in 2014, we took over one trillion photographs. From the funny memes that we send to our friends to the disturbing photographs we see in the news, we are consuming and producing images in quantities and ways that could never have been anticipated. In the process, we are producing a new worldview powered by changing demographics -- one where the majority of people are young, urban, and globally connected. In How to See the World, visual culture expert Nicholas Mirzoeff offers a sweeping look at history's most famous images -- from Velezquez's Las Meninas to the iconic "Blue Marble" -- to contextualize and make sense of today's visual world. Drawing on art history, sociology, semiotics, and everyday experience, he teaches us how to close read everything from astronaut selfies to Impressionist self-portraits, from Hitchcock films to videos taken by drones. Mirzoeff takes us on a journey through visual revolutions in the arts and sciences, from new mapping techniques in the seventeenth century to new painting styles in the eighteenth and the creation of film, photography, and x-rays in the nineteenth century. In today's networked world, mobile technology and social media enable us to exercise "visual activism" -- the practice of producing and circulating images to drive political and social change. Whether we are looking at pictures showing the effects of climate change on natural and urban landscapes or an fMRI scan demonstrating neurological addiction, Mirzoeff helps us to find meaning in what we see. A powerful and accessible introduction to this new visual culture, How to See the World reveals how images shape our lives, how we can harness their power for good, and why they matter to us all.
The ArcGIS Imagery Book
Author: Clint Brown
Publisher: ESRI Press
ISBN: 9781589484627
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A conceptual introduction and practical primer to the application of imagery and remote sensing data in GIS (geographic information systems).
Publisher: ESRI Press
ISBN: 9781589484627
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A conceptual introduction and practical primer to the application of imagery and remote sensing data in GIS (geographic information systems).
Images of the World
Author: John Amadeus Wolter
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated with 196 rare and historical maps it recounts tales of atlas makers from pre-Gutenberg to electronic atlas.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated with 196 rare and historical maps it recounts tales of atlas makers from pre-Gutenberg to electronic atlas.
The Vanishing Word
Author: Arthur W. Hunt
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1625642652
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Is image everything? For many people in our culture, image and images are everything. Americans spend hours watching television but rarely finish a good book. Words are quickly losing their appeal. Arthur Hunt sees this trend as a direct assault on Christianity. He warns that by exalting imagery we risk becoming mindless pagans. Our thirst for images has dulled our minds so that we lack the biblical and mental defenses we need to resist pagan influences. What about paganism? Hunt contends that it never died in modern Western culture; image-based media just brought it to the surface again. Sex, violence, and celebrity worship abound in our culture, driving a mass media frenzy reminiscent of pagan idolatry. This book is a clear warning that the church is being cut off from its word-based heritage, and that we are open to abuse by those who exploit the image but neglect the Word. Thoughtful readers will find this a challenging call to be critical about the images bombarding our sense and to affirm that the Word is everything.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1625642652
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Is image everything? For many people in our culture, image and images are everything. Americans spend hours watching television but rarely finish a good book. Words are quickly losing their appeal. Arthur Hunt sees this trend as a direct assault on Christianity. He warns that by exalting imagery we risk becoming mindless pagans. Our thirst for images has dulled our minds so that we lack the biblical and mental defenses we need to resist pagan influences. What about paganism? Hunt contends that it never died in modern Western culture; image-based media just brought it to the surface again. Sex, violence, and celebrity worship abound in our culture, driving a mass media frenzy reminiscent of pagan idolatry. This book is a clear warning that the church is being cut off from its word-based heritage, and that we are open to abuse by those who exploit the image but neglect the Word. Thoughtful readers will find this a challenging call to be critical about the images bombarding our sense and to affirm that the Word is everything.
Watching the World Change
Author: David Friend
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312591489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Relates the stories behind the photographs of 9/11, discusses the controversy over whether the images are exploitative or redemptive, and shows how photographs help us witness, grieve, and understand the unimaginable.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312591489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Relates the stories behind the photographs of 9/11, discusses the controversy over whether the images are exploitative or redemptive, and shows how photographs help us witness, grieve, and understand the unimaginable.
The Atlantis World
Author: A.G. Riddle
Publisher: Atlantis Trilogy
ISBN: 1784970131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Geneticist Kate Warner and counter-terrorism agent David Vale have prevented a fierce plague from wiping out humanity – but the struggle to survive is far from over.
Publisher: Atlantis Trilogy
ISBN: 1784970131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Geneticist Kate Warner and counter-terrorism agent David Vale have prevented a fierce plague from wiping out humanity – but the struggle to survive is far from over.
Iconotropy and Cult Images from the Ancient to Modern World
Author: Jorge Tomás García
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000574210
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The process by which the form and meaning of images are modified and adapted for a new context is defined by a large number of spiritual, religious, artistic, geographical or historical circumstances. This book provides a defined theoretical framework for these symbolic and material alterations based on the concept of iconotropy; that is, the way in which images change and/or alter their meaning. Iconotropy is a key concept in religious history, particularly for periods in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. In addition, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images. Numerous accounts from antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture and religious history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000574210
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The process by which the form and meaning of images are modified and adapted for a new context is defined by a large number of spiritual, religious, artistic, geographical or historical circumstances. This book provides a defined theoretical framework for these symbolic and material alterations based on the concept of iconotropy; that is, the way in which images change and/or alter their meaning. Iconotropy is a key concept in religious history, particularly for periods in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. In addition, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images. Numerous accounts from antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture and religious history.