Author: Stephen James Meredith BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Figures of speech
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The World of Imagery
Author: Stephen James Meredith BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Figures of speech
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A World of Images
Author: Laura H. ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780871922304
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
How to See the World
Author: Nicholas MirzoeffPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465096018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload over 300 hours of video to YouTube; and in 2014, we took over one trillion photographs. From the funny memes that we send to our friends to the disturbing photographs we see in the news, we are consuming and producing images in quantities and ways that could never have been anticipated. In the process, we are producing a new worldview powered by changing demographics -- one where the majority of people are young, urban, and globally connected. In How to See the World, visual culture expert Nicholas Mirzoeff offers a sweeping look at history's most famous images -- from Velezquez's Las Meninas to the iconic "Blue Marble" -- to contextualize and make sense of today's visual world. Drawing on art history, sociology, semiotics, and everyday experience, he teaches us how to close read everything from astronaut selfies to Impressionist self-portraits, from Hitchcock films to videos taken by drones. Mirzoeff takes us on a journey through visual revolutions in the arts and sciences, from new mapping techniques in the seventeenth century to new painting styles in the eighteenth and the creation of film, photography, and x-rays in the nineteenth century. In today's networked world, mobile technology and social media enable us to exercise "visual activism" -- the practice of producing and circulating images to drive political and social change. Whether we are looking at pictures showing the effects of climate change on natural and urban landscapes or an fMRI scan demonstrating neurological addiction, Mirzoeff helps us to find meaning in what we see. A powerful and accessible introduction to this new visual culture, How to See the World reveals how images shape our lives, how we can harness their power for good, and why they matter to us all.
Observing the World through Images
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004263853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The well-illustrated articles in Observing the World through Images offer insights into the uses of images in astronomy, mathematics, instrument-making, medicine and alchemy, highlighting shared forms as well as those peculiar to individual disciplines. Themes addressed include: the processes of image production and communication; the transformation of images through copying and adaptation for new purposes; genres and traditions of imagery in particular scientific disciplines; the mnemonic and pedagogical value of diagrams; the relationship between text and image; and the roles of diagrams as tools to think with. Contributors include: Isabelle Pantin, Jennifer Rampling, Samuel Gessner, Renee Raphael, Karin Ekholm, Hester Higton, and Katie Taylor.
The World of Imagery
Author: Stephen J. BrownThe Imagery of Interior Spaces
Author: Michael J. KellyPublisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1950192199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
On the unstable boundaries between "interior" and "exterior," "private" and "public," and always in some way relating to a "beyond," the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature -- from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth -- reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels. This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and Émile Zola.
The ArcGIS Imagery Book
Author: Clint BrownPublisher: ESRI Press
ISBN: 9781589484627
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A conceptual introduction and practical primer to the application of imagery and remote sensing data in GIS (geographic information systems).
Images of the World
Author: John Amadeus WolterPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated with 196 rare and historical maps it recounts tales of atlas makers from pre-Gutenberg to electronic atlas.
The World of Imagery, Etc
Author: Stephen James Meredith BROWNPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
C. S. Lewis
Author: Douglas R. GilbertPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802828002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Gilbert and Kilby offer a portrait of C.S. Lewis and the milieu in which he lived, using words and pictures to try to represent vividly some aspects of his life.