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Book Synopsis Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing by : Asbjørn Grønstad
Download or read book Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing written by Asbjørn Grønstad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent mediasphere where images – as lenses bearing on their own circumstances – are constantly mobilized to enact symbolic forms of warfare and where they get entangled in all kinds of cultural conflicts and controversies, a turn to the gestural life of images seems to promise a particularly pertinent avenue of intellectual inquiry. The complex gestures of the artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies. In visual art, the gestural appears to be that which intervenes between form and content, materiality and meaning. But as a conceptual force it also impinges upon the very process of seeing itself. As a critical and heuristic trope, the gestural galvanizes many of the most pertinent areas of inquiry in contemporary debates and scholarship in visual culture and related disciplines: ethics (images and their values and affects), aesthetics (from visual essentialism to transesthetics and synesthesia), ecology (iconoclastic gestures and spaces of conflict), and epistemology (questions of the archive, memory and documentation). Offering fresh perspectives on many of these areas, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing will be intensely awaited by readers from and across several disciplines, such as anthropology, linguistics, performance, theater, film and visual studies.
Download or read book The Quick Pose written by Erin Meads and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300 illustrations offer first-rate examples worthy of study accompanied by a brief, well-constructed text. Topics include foreshortening, light and shadow, heads, drapery, other aspects of figure drawing.
Book Synopsis Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision by : Nadja Rottner
Download or read book Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision written by Nadja Rottner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg’s poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965. This research-intensive book argues that Oldenburg’s art relies on machine vision and other metaphors to visualize the structure and image content of human thought as an artistic problem. Anchored in new oral history interviews and extensive archival material, it brings together understudied visual and concrete poetry, experimental films, fifteen group performances (commonly referred to as happenings), and a close analysis of his well-known installations of The Street (1960) and The Store (1961–62), effectively setting in place a reexamination of Oldenburg’s pop art from the street, store, home, and cinema years. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, film studies, performance studies, literature, intermedia studies, and media theory.
Book Synopsis What Drawing and Painting Really Mean by : Paul Crowther
Download or read book What Drawing and Painting Really Mean written by Paul Crowther and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Drawing and Painting in the Age of Networks -- 1 The Cognitive Function of the Image -- 2 Gestural Origins of Drawing and Painting: From Pre-History to Aesthetic Space -- 3 The Phenomenology of Drawing and Painting -- 4 Aesthetic Space: Drawing, Painting, and the Meaning of Everything -- 5 Art's Eternalization of the Moment -- 6 Meaning in Abstract Art -- 7 Conditions of Creativity: Drawing and Painting with Computers -- Conclusion: Drawing and Painting at the Limits of Art -- Bibliography -- Index
Book Synopsis Site-Seeing Aesthetics by : Lene M. Johannessen
Download or read book Site-Seeing Aesthetics written by Lene M. Johannessen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations draws on multiple disciplines for a regional deep mapping and aesthetic analyses that in a kind of “literary chorography” read and write sites as multilayered scripts and performances.
Book Synopsis Exploring Text, Media, and Memory by : Patrizia Lombardo
Download or read book Exploring Text, Media, and Memory written by Patrizia Lombardo and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Text, Media and Memory investigates the link between memory and media by asking a series of questions pertinent to our time: How do individual and collective memories blend? How do traumatic experiences from past events and catastrophic projections of the future reveal the human condition in the epoch of frenetic technological reproduction of works of art? How is the human body tied to narrations - and why? A group of international scholars tackle questions like these across art forms, media, and cultural history. In nineteen essays they argue that modern and contemporary literary texts and visual arts show how photography, film, tape recording, television, and internet are not just means of storing memory and information, but objects that we interact with every day - challenging static visions of places and the linear notions of past, present and future.
Book Synopsis Art, Animals, and Experience by : Elizabeth Sutton
Download or read book Art, Animals, and Experience written by Elizabeth Sutton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Color Plates -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Relational Ethics and Aesthetics -- Being and Thinking with Art and Animals -- Between Presence and Absence -- An Ethical Art History -- 2 Dogged Flesh: Rembrandt's Presentation in the Temple, c. 1640 -- Real and Represented Dogs -- Rembrandt's Three R's: Radical, Reflective, Revelatory -- The Rhetoric of Etching -- Fleshly Experience -- Past Made Present -- 3 Glances with Wolves: Encounters with Little John and Joseph Beuys -- Entangled Encounters -- Seeing and Being with Little John -- Presencing Other Worlds -- Imaginative Empathy -- Gathering Together in the Gap -- 4 Glimpse into the Unknown: Contemporary Taxidermy and Photography -- Spaces Between: Yellow and Taza -- Respecting Unknowns -- Dominance, Submission, and Freedom: Inert and Progression of Regression -- Death and the Object (Ars longa vita brevis est) -- From Hierarchy to Horizontality -- 5 "We Are All Connected": Experiencing Art and Nature at Horseshoe Canyon -- Guided by Dogs and Children -- "We Are All Connected"--Dwelling with Dogs and Earth -- Accessing Histories with Attentive Care -- Art and Earth as Places of Emergence -- 6 Caring for Art and Animals -- Bibliography -- Index
Book Synopsis Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice by : Camille C Baker
Download or read book Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice written by Camille C Baker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in the outcome itself – the artefact, artwork or performance – contributors instead highlight the emotional, intellectual, intuitive, instinctive and step-by-step creation dimensions. They aim to shine a light on digital and electronic art practice, involving coding, electronic gadgetry and technology mixed with other forms of more established media, to uncover the practice-as-research processes required, as well as the collaborative aspects of art and technology practice.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials by : Panos Kompatsiaris
Download or read book The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials written by Panos Kompatsiaris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and Frantz Fanon share the same ground with neoliberal cultural policy makers and creative entrepreneurs. Building on the legacy of events that conjoin art, critical theory and counterculture, from Nova Convention to documenta X, the new biennial blends the modalities of protest with a neoliberal politics of creativity. This book examines a strained period for these high art institutions, a period when their politics are brought into question and often boycotted in the context of austerity, crisis and the rise of Occupy cultures. Using the 3rd Athens Biennale and the 7th Berlin Biennale as its main case studies, it looks at how the in-built tensions between the domains of art and politics take shape when spectacular displays attempt to operate as immediate activist sites. Drawing on ethnographic research and contemporary cultural theory, this book argues that biennials both denunciate the aesthetic as bourgeois category and simultaneously replicate and diffuse an exclusive sociability across social landscapes.
Download or read book Unwatchable written by Nicholas Baer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible? With over 50 original essays by leading scholars, artists, critics, and curators, this is the first book to trace the “unwatchable” across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content on various screens and platforms. Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, the volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.
Book Synopsis Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture by : Asbjørn Grønstad
Download or read book Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture written by Asbjørn Grønstad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture contribute pioneering and revelatory insights into the phenomenon of invisibility, forging new and multi-disciplinary approaches at the intersection of aesthetics, technology, representation and politics. Importantly, they acknowledge the complex interaction between invisibility and its opposite, visibility, arguing that the one cannot be fully grasped without the other. Considering these entanglements across different media forms, the chapters reveal that the invisible affects many cultural domains, from digital communication and operative images to the activism of social movements, as well as to identity, race, gender and class issues. Whether the subject is comic books, photographic provocations, biometric and brainwave sensing technologies, letters, or a cinematic diary, the analyses in this book engage critically and theoretically with the topic of invisibility and thus represent the first scholarly study to identify its importance for the field of visual culture.
Book Synopsis Looking Beyond Borderlines by : Lee Rodney
Download or read book Looking Beyond Borderlines written by Lee Rodney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central to American identity throughout modern history, has all but disappeared in contemporary representation while the border has served to uncomfortably fill the void left in the spatial imagination of American culture. This book focuses on the shifting relationship between borders and frontiers in North America, specifically the ways in which they have been imaged and imagined since their formation in the 19th century and how tropes of visuality are central to their production and meaning. Rodney links ongoing discussions in political geography and visual culture in new ways to demonstrate how contemporary American borders exhibit security as a display strategy that is resisted and undermined through a variety of cultural practices.
Book Synopsis Metafilm Music in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema by : Michael Baumgartner
Download or read book Metafilm Music in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema written by Michael Baumgartner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This monograph explores the under-researched use of music in Jean-Luc Godard's films and video essays from the early 1960s to the late 1990s. While Godard is largely hailed as a leading innovator of visual montage, unique storytelling style, and ground-breaking cinematography, his achievements as a leading pioneer in sculpting complex soundtracks altering the familiar relationship between sound and image have been mainly overlooked. On these soundtracks, music assumes the unique role of metafilm music. Metafilm music self-consciously refers to its own role as film music and disrupts the primary function of film music as an essential filmic device creating cinematic illusion. The concept of metafilm music describes how Godard thinks with film music about film music. Metafilm music manifests itself in Godard's work in four distinct manners: as fragmentized musical cues; as the same fragment verbatim repeated several times; as extrapolated, short excerpts from classical or popular music; and as music mixed unusually loudly into the soundtrack. With a detailed analysis of these parameters, the book explores fragmented and repeated music as Godard's critique of the leitmotif technique. Godard further self-reflexively investigates genre-specific music in musical comedies, films noir, and melodramas, as well as prototypical film music as arguably its own musical genre. His last foray into metafilm music entails music-making as a metaphor for filmmaking. By thinking with music about the function of film music, Godard has created throughout his career multi-layered soundtracks which challenge the conventional norms of film music and sound"--
Book Synopsis Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime by : Temenuga Trifonova
Download or read book Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime written by Temenuga Trifonova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of its long and tumultuous history the sublime has alternated between spatial and temporal definitions, from its conceptualization in terms of the grandeur and infinity of Nature (spatial), to its postmodern redefinition as an "event" (temporal), from its conceptualization in terms of our failure to "cognitively map" the decentered global network of capital or the rhizomatic structure of the postmetropolis (spatial), to its neurophenomenological redefinition in terms of the new temporality of presence produced by network/real time (temporal). This volume explores the place of the sublime in contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and political values coded in it. It offers a map of the contemporary sublime in terms of the limits—cinematic, cognitive, neurophysiological, technological, or environmental—of representation.
Book Synopsis Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice by : Christian Mieves
Download or read book Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice written by Christian Mieves and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science. However, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between the visual arts and wonder. This book presents a new perspective on this overlooked connection, allowing a unique insight into the role of wonder in contemporary visual practice. Artists, curators and art theorists give accounts of their approach to wonder through the use of materials, objects and ways of exhibiting. These accounts not only raise issues of a particular relevance to the way in which we encounter our reality today but ask to what extent artists utilize the function of wonder purposely in their work.
Book Synopsis W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory by : Krešimir Purgar
Download or read book W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory written by Krešimir Purgar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world. This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies – pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others – while systematically presenting the work of Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures. As a special feature, the book includes three comprehensive, authoritative and theoretically relevant interviews with Mitchell that focus on different stages of development of visual studies and critical iconology.
Download or read book Marie Duval written by Simon Grennan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century. It discusses key themes and practices of Duval’s vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner. The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance. It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval’s drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity. Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.
