Author: Shaun Mehta
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504900901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Katherine Melody Chambers is an abused, autistic savant child in a psychogenic coma. To escape her traumatic reality, she lives as Queen Kaila, the protagonist of a fantasy book she loved to read. Blaming himself for the murder of his wife and daughter, Detective Alex Knight searches for redemption by promising justice for the comatose twelve-year-old. Best described as Game of Thrones meets CSI, Illuminated Shadows is an epic adventure in an enchanted world, and a gripping police whodunit thriller that has a reality and fantasy converging towards an inescapable collision.
Illuminated Shadows
Author: Shaun Mehta
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504900901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Katherine Melody Chambers is an abused, autistic savant child in a psychogenic coma. To escape her traumatic reality, she lives as Queen Kaila, the protagonist of a fantasy book she loved to read. Blaming himself for the murder of his wife and daughter, Detective Alex Knight searches for redemption by promising justice for the comatose twelve-year-old. Best described as Game of Thrones meets CSI, Illuminated Shadows is an epic adventure in an enchanted world, and a gripping police whodunit thriller that has a reality and fantasy converging towards an inescapable collision.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504900901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Katherine Melody Chambers is an abused, autistic savant child in a psychogenic coma. To escape her traumatic reality, she lives as Queen Kaila, the protagonist of a fantasy book she loved to read. Blaming himself for the murder of his wife and daughter, Detective Alex Knight searches for redemption by promising justice for the comatose twelve-year-old. Best described as Game of Thrones meets CSI, Illuminated Shadows is an epic adventure in an enchanted world, and a gripping police whodunit thriller that has a reality and fantasy converging towards an inescapable collision.
Illuminated Paris
Author: S. Hollis Clayson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022659386X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec’s iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower’s nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplify our fantasies of Parisian nightlife. Though we reflect longingly on such scenes, in Illuminated Paris, Hollis Clayson shows that there’s more to these clichés than meets the eye. In this richly illustrated book, she traces the dramatic evolution of lighting in Paris and how artists responded to the shifting visual and cultural scenes that resulted from these technologies. While older gas lighting produced a haze of orange, new electric lighting was hardly an improvement: the glare of experimental arc lights—themselves dangerous—left figures looking pale and ghoulish. As Clayson shows, artists’ representations of these new colors and shapes reveal turn-of-the-century concerns about modernization as electric lighting came to represent the harsh glare of rapidly accelerating social change. At the same time, in part thanks to American artists visiting the city, these works of art also produced our enduring romantic view of Parisian glamour and its Belle Époque.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022659386X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec’s iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower’s nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplify our fantasies of Parisian nightlife. Though we reflect longingly on such scenes, in Illuminated Paris, Hollis Clayson shows that there’s more to these clichés than meets the eye. In this richly illustrated book, she traces the dramatic evolution of lighting in Paris and how artists responded to the shifting visual and cultural scenes that resulted from these technologies. While older gas lighting produced a haze of orange, new electric lighting was hardly an improvement: the glare of experimental arc lights—themselves dangerous—left figures looking pale and ghoulish. As Clayson shows, artists’ representations of these new colors and shapes reveal turn-of-the-century concerns about modernization as electric lighting came to represent the harsh glare of rapidly accelerating social change. At the same time, in part thanks to American artists visiting the city, these works of art also produced our enduring romantic view of Parisian glamour and its Belle Époque.
Standard Lighting ...
Author: Harry Cooke Cushing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lighting
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lighting
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Elements of Physiology
Author: Joh Müller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiology, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiology, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The Physiology of the Senses, Voice and Muscular Motion, with Mental Facilities
Author: Johannes Müller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Muscles
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Muscles
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Radiation, Light and Illumination
Author: Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Light
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Light
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Elements of Physiology
Author: Johannes Mueller (Physiologist.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Elements of Physiology
Author: Johannes Müller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiology
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiology
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The Visual World of Shadows
Author: Roberto Casati
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262039583
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh examine how the perception of shadows, as studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. Shadows are at once a massive problem for vision—which must distinguish them from objects or material features of objects—and a resource, signaling the presence, location, shape, and size of objects. Casati and Cavanagh draw up an inventory of information retrievable from shadows, showing their amazing variety. They present an overview of the visual system, distinguishing between measurement and inference. They discuss the shadow mission, the work done by the visual brain to parse, and perhaps discard, the information from shadows; shadow ownership, the association of a shadow with the object that casts it; shadow labeling, the visual system's ability to tell shadows from nonshadows; and the shadow concept, our knowledge about shadows as a category. Casati and Cavanagh then apply the theoretical apparatus they have developed for shadows to other phenomena: illumination, reflection, and transparency. Finally, they examine the art of the shadow, paying tribute to artists' exploration of shadow, analyzing a series of artworks (reproduced in color) from a rich and fascinating art historical corpus.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262039583
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh examine how the perception of shadows, as studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. Shadows are at once a massive problem for vision—which must distinguish them from objects or material features of objects—and a resource, signaling the presence, location, shape, and size of objects. Casati and Cavanagh draw up an inventory of information retrievable from shadows, showing their amazing variety. They present an overview of the visual system, distinguishing between measurement and inference. They discuss the shadow mission, the work done by the visual brain to parse, and perhaps discard, the information from shadows; shadow ownership, the association of a shadow with the object that casts it; shadow labeling, the visual system's ability to tell shadows from nonshadows; and the shadow concept, our knowledge about shadows as a category. Casati and Cavanagh then apply the theoretical apparatus they have developed for shadows to other phenomena: illumination, reflection, and transparency. Finally, they examine the art of the shadow, paying tribute to artists' exploration of shadow, analyzing a series of artworks (reproduced in color) from a rich and fascinating art historical corpus.