Author: Freda DinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Observer's Book of Music
Author: Freda DinnThe Observer's Book of Folk Song in Britain
Author: Fred WoodsPublisher: Frederick Warne Publishers
ISBN: 9780723216124
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Observer's Book of Garden Flowers
Author: The Observer's Book of British Architecture
Author: John 1916-2007 PenoyrePublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781015097964
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Techniques of the Observer
Author: Jonathan CraryPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262531078
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle. In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new forms of control and standardization of vision. Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices, detailing how they were the product of new physiological knowledge. He also shows how these forms of mass culture, usually labeled as "realist," were in fact based on abstract models of vision, and he suggests that mimetic or perspectival notions of vision and representation were initially abandoned in the first half of the nineteenth century within a variety of powerful institutions and discourses, well before the modernist painting of the 1870s and 1880s.
The New Observers Book of Wild Flowers
Author: Francis ROSEThe Observer's Book of Furniture
Author: John WoodfordePublisher: Frederick Warne
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How much more profitable visits to country houses and auction rooms would be if we were familiar with the antique furniture which we would be likely to see there. For these purposes the author has prepared this little volume with special attention to quick, on-the-spot reference.
The New Observer's Book of Automobiles
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780723216759
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Author: William John Stokoe
Author: Freda Dinn