The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences

The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences PDF Author: Nancy A. Anderson
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN:
Category : Communication and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Book Description
The creation and processing of visual representations in the life sciences is a critical but often overlooked aspect of scientific pedagogy. The Educated Eye follows the nineteenth-century embrace of the visible in new spectatoria, or demonstration halls, through the twentieth-century cinematic explorations of microscopic realms and simulations of surgery in virtual reality.

The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences

The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences PDF Author: Nancy A. Anderson
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN:
Category : Communication and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Book Description
The creation and processing of visual representations in the life sciences is a critical but often overlooked aspect of scientific pedagogy. The Educated Eye follows the nineteenth-century embrace of the visible in new spectatoria, or demonstration halls, through the twentieth-century cinematic explorations of microscopic realms and simulations of surgery in virtual reality.

Travels in Intermedia[lity]

Travels in Intermedia[lity] PDF Author: Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682614
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Book Description
The cooperation and collaboration between media, art forms, and cultural studies

Anatomy Museum

Anatomy Museum PDF Author: Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780236042
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 523

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Book Description
The wild success of the traveling Body Worlds exhibition is testimony to the powerful allure that human bodies can have when opened up for display in gallery spaces. But while anatomy museums have shown their visitors much about bodies, they themselves are something of an obscure phenomenon, with their incredible technological developments and complex uses of visual images and the flesh itself remaining largely under researched. This book investigates anatomy museums in Western settings, revealing how they have operated in the often passionate pursuit of knowledge that inspires both fascination and fear. Elizabeth Hallam explores these museums, past and present, showing how they display the human body—whether naked, stripped of skin, completely dissected, or rendered in the form of drawings, three-dimensional models, x-rays, or films. She identifies within anatomy museums a diverse array of related issues—from the representation of deceased bodies in art to the aesthetics of science, from body donation to techniques for preserving corpses and ritualized practices for disposing of the dead. Probing these matters through in-depth study, Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history of the spaces human bodies are made to occupy when displayed after death.

Drawn from Life

Drawn from Life PDF Author: Jonathan Murray
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748694129
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
Explores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries.

On the Sleeve of the Visual

On the Sleeve of the Visual PDF Author: Alessandra Raengo
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584659742
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Book Description
An investigation of race and the ontology of the visual

The Anatomy Museum

The Anatomy Museum PDF Author: Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861893752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Book Description
Anatomy museums around the world showcase preserved corpses in service of education and medical advancement, but they are little-known and have been largely hidden from the public eye. Elizabeth Hallam here investigates the anatomy museum and how it reveals the fascination and fears that surround the dead body in Western societies. Hallam explores the history of these museums and how they operate in the current cultural environment. Their regulated access increasingly clashes with evolving public mores toward the exposed body, as demonstrated by the international popularity of the Body Worlds exhibition. The book examines such related topics as artistic works that employ the images of dead bodies and the larger ongoing debate over the disposal of corpses. Issues such as aesthetics and science, organ and body donations, and the dead body in Western religion and ritual are also discussed here in fascinating depth. The Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history that investigates the ideas of preservation, human rituals of death, and the spaces that our bodies occupy in this life and beyond.

Girlhood and the Plastic Image

Girlhood and the Plastic Image PDF Author: Heather Warren-Crow
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
ISBN: 1611685745
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Book Description
You are girlish, our images tell us. You are plastic. Girlhood and the Plastic Image explains how, revealing the increasing girlishness of contemporary media. The figure of the girl has long been prized for its mutability, for the assumed instability and flexibility of the not-yet-woman. The plasticity of girlish identity has met its match in the plastic world of digital art and cinema. A richly satisfying interdisciplinary study showing girlish transformation to be a widespread condition of mediation, Girlhood and the Plastic Image explores how and why our images promise us the adaptability of youth. This original and engaging study will appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience including scholars of media studies, film studies, art history, and women's studies.

A Violent Embrace

A Violent Embrace PDF Author: renée c. hoogland
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
ISBN: 1611684927
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Book Description
Instead of asking questions about the symbolic meaning or underlying "truth" of a work of art, renée c. hoogland is concerned with the actual "work" that it does in the world (whether intentionally or not). Why do we find ourselves in tears in front of an abstract painting? Why do some cartoons of the prophet Muhammad generate worldwide political outrage? What, in other words, is the compelling force of visual images, even—or especially—if they are nonfigurative, repulsive, or downright "ugly"? Rather than describing, analyzing, and interpreting artworks, hoogland approaches art as an event that obtains on the level of actualization, presenting "retellings" of specific artistic events in the light of recent interventions in aesthetic theory, and proposing to conceive of the aesthetic encounter as a potentially disruptive, if not violent, force field with material, political, and practical consequences.

Altered Pasts

Altered Pasts PDF Author: Richard J. Evans
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611685397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Book Description
A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940 instead of Churchill: seemingly minor twists of fate on which world-shaking events might have hinged. Alternative history has long been the stuff of parlor games, war-gaming, and science fiction, but over the past few decades it has become a popular stomping ground for serious historians. The historian Richard J. Evans now turns a critical, slightly jaundiced eye on a subject typically the purview of armchair historians. The book's main concern is examining the intellectual fallout from historical counterfactuals, which the author defines as "alternative versions of the past in which one alteration in the timeline leads to a different outcome from the one we know actually occurred." What if Britain had stood at the sidelines during the First World War? What if the Wehrmacht had taken Moscow? The author offers an engaging and insightful introduction to the genre, while discussing the reasons for its revival in popularity, the role of historical determinism, and the often hidden agendas of the counterfactual historian. Most important, Evans takes counterfactual history seriously, looking at the insights, pitfalls, and intellectual implications of changing one thread in the weave of history. A wonderful critical introduction to an often-overlooked genre for scholars and casual readers of history alike.

Time and the Digital

Time and the Digital PDF Author: Timothy Scott Barker
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683017
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Book Description
An original consideration of the temporal in digital art and aesthetics