Visual Sense (eBook, PDF)

A Cultural Reader
Redaktion: Edwards, Elizabeth; Bhaumik, Kaushik

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Produktbeschreibung

Vision is more than looking or seeing. It is integral to all human action. Visual Sense presents a series of readings which offer a range of alternatives to conventional psychological and social scientific approaches to the study of the ocular.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040292723
• Artikelnr.: 72252637

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Edwards is Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London.Kaushik Bhaumik is Vice President of Osian's - Connoisseurs of Art, a leading cultural institution dedicated to building an infrastructure for the arts in India.

Inhaltsangabe

IllustrationsAcknowledgementsQuote: Merleau-Ponty1. Introduction2. Labyrinth2.1. Section Introduction2.2. Merleau-Ponty
'The Intertwining - Chiasm' 2.3. Alain Grosrichard
'Labyrinthine Complexities: The Ottoman Harem as seen by Western Orientalists'2.4. Mosche Barasch
'The Blind in the Early Christian World'2.5. Susanna Biernoff
'Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages'2.6. Howard Morphy
'The Light of Wangarr'2.7. Alan Klima
'Corpore Obscuro: Meditation on the Dead in Thailand'2.8. Susan Stewart
'On Longing: The Grotesque'2.9. Patrice Caldwell
'Lifting the Veil: Shared Culture Values of Control' 2.10. Jane Gaines
'Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike.' 3. Orderings3.1.Section Introduction3.2. Lorraine Daston
'Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment'3.3. Andrew Zimmerman
'Scientific Seeing: Commodities
Curiosities
and Anthropological Object'3.4. F. Feliu
'Science
Sight and the Ordering of Colonial Societies'3.5. Rachel Dwyer
'Gossip and the Creation of Cinematic Space'3.6. Tom Gunning
'The Films of Fritz Lang'3.7. Gulammohammed Sheikh
'Viewer's View: Looking at Pictures'3.8. Constance Classen
'An Andean Cosmology'3.9. Karen Strassler 'Witness of History: Student Photography and Reformasi Politics in Indonesia'3.10. Norma Field
'The Naming of a Heroine'4. Creating4.1. Section Introduction4.2. Liam Buckley
'Photography
Elegance and the Aesthetics of Citizenship'4.3. Isolde Standish
'Akira Postmodernism and Resistance' 4.4. David Morgan
'Patriotism and Nationalism: The Face of Consensus: Mid-Twentieth Century and the Image of Jesus'4.5. Paul Landau
'The Illumination of Christ in the Kalahari' 4.6. Lois Parkinson Zamora
'Quetzalcóatl's Mirror' 4.7. Elizabeth Edwards
'Photography and the Sound of History'4.8. Michel Chion
'Sound Film - Worthy of the Name'4.9. Jean-Luc Godard
'Cinema and History: In Conversation with Youssef Ishaghpour.'4.10. Annalee Newitz
'Madonna's Revenge" 4.11. Marla S. Stone
"A Fascist Theme Park" 5. Ruptures5.1. Section Introduction5.2. Wolfgang Schivelbusch
'The Railway Journey - Panoramic Travel'5.3. Lynda Nead
'The Secret of Gas'5.4. Marc Augé
'Supermodernity: From Places to Non-Placed'5.5. Linda Nochlin
'Camille Pissaro: The Unassuming Eye'5.6.Chantel Thomas
'The Wicked Queen: Marie-Antoinette'5.7. Finbarr Barry Flood
'Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan and Iconoclasm'5.8. Clare Harris
'The Creation of a Tibetan Modernist: The Painting of Gonkar Gyantso' 5.9. Elisha Renne
'Extraordinary Vision and Two Sides of Cloth'5.10. Eric G.Wilson
'The Spiritual History of Ice'6. Extensions6.1. Section Introduction6.2. Tim Ingold
'The Eye of the Storm: Visual Perception and the Weather'6.3. Robert Faris Thompson
'Basnjom and the Witches' 6.4. Yuri Tsivian
'The Cultural reception of Early Russian Cinema'6.5. Laura U. Marks
'Haptic Cinema'6.6. Catherine Lupton
'Chris Marker: Memories of the Future'6.7. Christopher Pinney
'What Do Pictures Want Now? Rural Consumers of Images in India'6.8. Jan Eric Olsén
'Surgical Vision and Digital Culture'6.9.Tim Hyman
'In the Service of Ben Comun: Visions of Good and Bad Government in Siena'6.10. Gaston Bachelard
'Intimate Immensity'Final Quote7. Selected BibliographyContributorsCopyright acknowledgements