The Image of the World
Title | The Image of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Whitfield |
Publisher | Pomegranate Communications |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Cartography |
ISBN | 9780764903649 |
Examines the history of world mapmaking through 70 outstanding individual examples, discussing the maps and their makers in relation to their age and placing them within the context of the wider history of ideas.
Image World
Title | Image World PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin Heiferman |
Publisher | Conran Octopus |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Picture World
Title | Picture World PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Teukolsky |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2020-08-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0198859732 |
The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed photographs, posters, cartoons, and illustrations. These alluring objects of the Victorian parlor were miniaturized spectacles that served as portals onto phantasmagoric versions of 'the world.' Although new kinds of pictures transformed everyday life, these ephemeral items have received remarkably little scholarly attention. Picture World shines a welcome new light onto these critically neglected yet fascinating visual objects. They serve as entryways into the nineteenth century's key aesthetic concepts. Each chapter pairs a new type of picture with a foundational keyword in Victorian aesthetics, a familiar term reconceived through the lens of new media. 'Character' appears differently when considered with caricature, in the new comics and cartoons appearing in the mass press in the 1830s; likewise, the book approaches 'realism' through pictorial journalism; 'illustration' via illustrated Bibles; 'sensation' through carte-de-visite portrait photographs; 'the picturesque' by way of stereoscopic views; and 'decadence' through advertising posters. Picture World studies the aesthetic effects of the nineteenth century's media revolution: it uses the relics of a previous era's cultural life to interrogate the Victorian world's most deeply-held values, arriving at insights still relevant in our own media age.
Human Image World Image
Title | Human Image World Image PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Sherrard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9789607120175 |
Dynamis of the Image
Title | Dynamis of the Image PDF eBook |
Author | Emmanuel Alloa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2019-04-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9783110528749 |
Images are not neutral conveyors of messages that are sent around the globe in order to reach a global audience. They represent a force that can trigger very different reactions and counteract new visual tendencies towards hegemony within a global world. The volume contains a compilation of case studies from the media, art, political and religious sciences, as well as from anthropology and the natural sciences. By focusing on the power of images outside their use in the media, the authors venture into new territory: the contributions from Hans Belting, Georges Didi-Huberman, W.J.T. Mitchell and others provide proof that globalization is not the same as homogenization, and that images are very capable of opening paths towards alternative facts in order to portray the future.
Locke's Image of the World
Title | Locke's Image of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Jacovides |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0198789866 |
Michael Jacovides provides an engaging account of how the scientific revolution influenced one of the foremost figures of early modern philosophy, John Locke. By placing Locke's thought in its scientific, religious, and anti-scholastic contexts, Jacovides explains not only what Locke believes but also why he believes it.
Image Brokers
Title | Image Brokers PDF eBook |
Author | Zeynep Devrim Gursel |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 425 |
Release | 2016-04-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520961617 |
How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images, Image Brokers ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world. News images, Zeynep Gürsel argues, function as formative fictions – fictional insofar as these images are constructed and culturally mediated, and formative because their public presence and circulation have real consequences in the world. Set against the backdrop of the War on Terror and based on fieldwork conducted at photojournalism’s centers of power, Image Brokers offers an intimate look at an industry in crisis. At the turn of the 21st century, image brokers—the people who manage the distribution and restriction of news images—found the core technologies of their craft, the status of images, and their own professional standing all changing rapidly with the digitalization of the infrastructures of representation. From corporate sales meetings to wire service desks, newsrooms to photography workshops and festivals, Image Brokers investigates how news images are produced and how worldviews are reproduced in the process.