History and Its Images
Title | History and Its Images PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Haskell |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300059496 |
Over the last four centuries, historians have turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this book, an art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material and examines the objects that became available to them.
HISTORY AND ITS IMAGES.
Title | HISTORY AND ITS IMAGES. PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Haskell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 568 |
Release | 1993 |
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Confronting Images
Title | Confronting Images PDF eBook |
Author | Georges Didi-Huberman |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780271024714 |
According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which intelligible forms lose clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he contends, fail to engage this underside, and he suggests that art historians look to Freud's concept of the "dreamwork", a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction.
The Power of Images
Title | The Power of Images PDF eBook |
Author | David Freedberg |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 561 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 022625903X |
"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."—E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books "This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition."—Arthur C. Danto, The Art Bulletin "Freedberg's ethnographic and historical range is simply stunning. . . . The Power of Images is an extraordinary critical achievement, exhilarating in its polemic against aesthetic orthodoxy, endlessly fascinating in its details. . . . This is a powerful, disturbing book."—T. J. Jackson Lears, Wilson Quarterly "Freedberg helps us to see that one cannot do justice to the images of art unless one recognizes in them the entire range of human responses, from the lowly impulses prevailing in popular imagery to their refinement in the great visions of the ages."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement
Images of History
Title | Images of History PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Eldridge |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2017-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190847360 |
Human subjects are both formed by historical inheritances and capable of active criticism. Insisting on this fact, Kant and Benjamin each develop powerful, systematic, but sharply opposed accounts of human powers and interests in freedom. A persistent constitutive tension between Kantian and Benjaminan ideals is woven through human life. By examining the two philosophers through this volume, Richard Eldridge attempts to make better sense of the commitment forming, commitment revising, anxious, reflective and acculturated human subjects we are.
Cosmic Imagery
Title | Cosmic Imagery PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Barrow |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780393061772 |
"... a tour through the most influential images in science"--Jacket.
History and Images
Title | History and Images PDF eBook |
Author | Axel Bolvig |
Publisher | Brepols Publishers |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The 19 papers of this collection were first presented at the 1999 History and Images Congress held at the U. of Copenhagen in Denmark. As reflected in the subtitle, the international group of historians and art historians provide essays that reflect new approaches to the reading of images, with the papers divided into the main topics of images and history, image databases and history, and images as source material.