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Author : Edward Bateman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny written by Edward Bateman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Bateman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781590052655
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny written by Edward Bateman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Regina Rohrbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Mechanical Brides written by Regina Rohrbach and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Hirsch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000596907
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Light and Lens written by Robert Hirsch and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest edition of this pioneering book allows students to acquire an essential foundation for digital photography. Fully updated, it clearly and concisely covers the fundamental concepts of imagemaking, how to use digital technology to create compelling images, and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Exploring history, methods, and theory, this text offers classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators, approaches for analyzing, discussing, and writing about photographs, and tools to critically explore and make images with increased visual literacy. New to this fourth edition: Completely updated and renewed to reflect social trends and technological advances Highly reconstructed Chapter 3: Image Capture: Cameras, Lenses, and Scanners Revamped Chapter 4: Exposure: Capturing the Light Entirely new Chapter 8: Digital Studio: The Virtual and the Material Worlds Expanded smartphone photography coverage Featuring nearly 300 international artists and over 360 innovative images and illustrations New engaging assignments Ideal for undergraduate students of digital photography and hobbyist photographers.
Author : Brady Wilks
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317612469
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Alternative Photographic Processes written by Brady Wilks and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternative Photographic Processes teaches techniques, both analog & digital, allowing artists to bring a personal touch through manipulation of a photograph, the negative, and the print. This book stands apart from recent publications on alternative processes by presenting a range of new approaches and methods to achieve popular techniques, as well as providing step-by-step guidance for an array of unique techniques meant to inspire artists working in various mediums. Through detailed guidance, working artist examples, and info about the contemporary use of these processes, this book will provide instruction for students, educators, and artists to expand their creative toolbox.
Author : Elissa Marder
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 082324055X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction written by Elissa Marder and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grows out of a longstanding fascination with the uncanny status of the mother in literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, film, and photography. The mother haunts Freud's writings on art and literature, emerges as an obscure stumbling block in his metapsychological accounts of the psyche, and ultimately undermines his patriarchal accounts of the Oedipal complex as a foundation for human culture. The figure of the mother becomes associated with some of psychoanalysis's most unruly and enigmatic concepts (the uncanny, anxiety, the primal scene, the crypt, and magical thinking). Read in relation to deconstructive approaches to the work of mourning, this book shows how the maternal function challenges traditional psychoanalytic models of the subject, troubles existing systems of representation, and provides a fertile source for nonmimetic, nonlinear conceptions of time and space. The readings in this book examine the uncanny properties of the maternal function in psychoanalysis, technology, and literature in order to show that the event of birth is radically unthinkable and often becomes expressed through uncontrollable repetitions that exceed the bounds of any subject. The maternal body often serves as an unacknowledged reference point for modern media technologies such as photography and the telephone, which attempt to mimic its reproductive properties. To the extent that these technologies aim to usurp the maternal function, they are often deployed as a means of regulating or warding off anxieties that are provoked by the experience of loss that real separation from the mother invariably demands. As the incarnation of our first relation to the strange exile of language, the mother is inherently a literary figure, whose primal presence in literary texts opens us up to the unspeakable relation to our own birth and, in so doing, helps us give birth to new and fantasmatic images of futures that might otherwise have remained unimaginable.
Author : Terry Castle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019508098X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Female Thermometer written by Terry Castle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.
Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804270
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Sophie's World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author : Stan Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Past Imperfect written by Stan Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Annie Besant (1847–1933) wrote in her 1893 Autobiography that her life was 'much attacked and slandered' she was only 45 years old, and many more controversies were yet to come. In this book, Besant charts her dramatic political and ethical awakenings, up to the point where she joined the Theosophical movement. She describes how she was unhappily married to a clergyman, contemplated suicide, embraced atheism, and legally separated from her husband. She recounts how she became a prolific writer and public speaker, joined the National Secular Society, was involved in the highly controversial publication of a birth control leaflet, and engaged in activism for workers' rights and home rule for Ireland. She also reflects on her own ideology and spirituality. Besant did much to shock and challenge Victorian society, and this book vividly portrays her struggles and successes.
Author : Laura Mullen
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082033278X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book After I Was Dead written by Laura Mullen and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful collection of poems from Laura Mullen is the edgy, unashamedly experimental, and formally inventive book of a poet who has found her way to her own voice or style--or rather voices and styles, for there are several. The poems of After I Was Dead develop harmonically rather than melodically: they leap from one register, one voice, one tone to another in deft juxtapositions that carry narrative only incidentally, destabilizing traditional notions of development. These poems are honed by a fine intelligence into elegant, sometimes funny art, as in “Autumn”: “Her hair, brown. / Her specialty, damage. / Her specialty, becoming / Something else. Her hair, falling / Leaves, leaf rot, and then soil.” Through her rediscovery of the freedom Emily Dickinson located in being “dead” (in writing from over the border of an already recognized erasure), Mullen increases the territory of the contemporary poem.
Author : Sylvia Grace Borda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772033298
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Sylvia Grace Borda written by Sylvia Grace Borda and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borda's work is filled with nuance, personal connections and unexpected uses of imaging technology. --Galleries West A thought-provoking art book exploring changing landscapes through the pioneering work of Canadian photographer Sylvia Grace Borda. Sylvia Grace Borda made a substantial debut into new media and photo art when she launched Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC. With this piece, Borda reclaimed California coastal conceptual photo strategies from the 1960s and used them to document a large Canadian city by its own transit system. This marked her entry into international recognition. Since then, Borda has undertaken epic projects to re-imagine urban spaces, from the New Towns of East Kilbride and Glenrothes in Scotland to modernist faith buildings in Northern Ireland. In this dazzling new monograph, Sylvia's exceptional body of work is examined and placed in both a regional and international context. Specifically, her practice developed in Surrey is examined in relation to art history, the Vancouver School of Art, digital media, community engagement, and projects concluded in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Finland. Featuring essays by renowned curators, artists, and scholars--each presenting specific perspectives on how Borda's diverse arts practice has shifted and expanded the mediums of art, photography, and social awareness--Sylvia Grace Borda: Shifting Perspectives constructs a conversation between the remembrance of place and current narratives in art history.
Author : Rod Giblett
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sublime Communication Technologies written by Rod Giblett and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.
Author : Elsa Jade
Publisher : Red Circle Ink
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Big Sky Alien Mail Order Brides Box Set Collection 3: Cyborg Cowboys of Carbon County written by Elsa Jade and published by Red Circle Ink. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cyborg Cowboys of Carbon County, the quartet all in one place! Adventure and romance together in high-speed pursuit of Happily Ever Afters throughout the universe. If you’ve been looking for love in all the wrong galaxies, find your alien mate with the Intergalactic Dating Agency! Mach One ~ Delta V ~ Big Bang ~ Theta On the outskirts of the Big Sky Intergalactic Dating Agency, the Cyborg Cowboys of Carbon County are rounding up earthly pleasures for their forever mates… Mach One Oversized Montana rancher Mach Halley’s very big Stetson and giant belt buckle are hiding a secret of cosmic proportions: He’s a CWBOI (Custom War Bionic/Organic Imperson). When his warship of cyborg warriors crashed on Earth 150 years ago, he kept the survivors alive and hidden. But with a dormant member of his unit about to be born, he needs a healer—even if the pretty little lady doc must forget everything she sees. Making a name for herself in rural veterinary medicine has been tough for Doctor Chien Lun-mei, so she takes a strange midnight call to prove her worth—only to discover a secret wilder than any bucking bronc. If she rants about UFOs and ETs, she’ll be laughed out of the county, but this strong, silent cowboy who feels even more out of place than she does touches her in more ways than one. Together they’ll fight to save an alien life, but for Mach to escape a war he never wanted, he’ll have to risk an alien love. Delta V Deltas were always the most expendable among the CWBOIs, and Delta V was fifth of nothing. But since the crash that left his troop marooned on Earth, Delta has found some small pleasures—soft dogs, sweet donuts, seducing the neighboring rancher. Wait, what? For the first time in her fifty years, Big Sky Country is feeling small and lonely to Montana rancher Lindy Minervudottir. With the five-year anniversary of her wife’s death looming, she’s not sure if the future matters. But then a futuristic fighter flies into her life. Earth is a small, blue marble in the vastness of space, and two needy hearts are smaller yet. But with an old enemy closing in, the world itself hangs in the balance. Big Bang It’s Christmas in Carbon County, and not a creature is stirring, not even a cyborg… In the matrix of genetically and cybernetically enhanced contract killers, he was the Omega—brought out only the last resort, the final answer, the end times. Cosmo is a time bomb forever set to 00:00:00:01. Vic Ray thought she was so smart. As a reformed black-hat hacker, she cracked every code—except the one that explains people. And then she found out about aliens. At least she doesn’t have to be nice to a killer robot like Cosmo to get what she wants: Off this world. When an old enemy and a new one join forces to expose the CWBOIs on Earth, Cosmo and Vic will have to figure out what it means to love before everything they know is lost forever. Can the Spirit of Christmas teach a deadly cyborg and a misanthrope to believe in a future together? Theta The Theta shroud designation was always meant to be an outsider—a spy and saboteur lurking on the fringes of the elite cyborg soldiers. So Troy Lehigh stayed apart from his brothers while they lived and loved. A Theta could never hope for such a bond. His only desire is to destroy the consortium that doomed him to solitude. But then, a hundred and fifty years ago, he met a sassy soiled dove in a Montana saloon… Nell Dearly had wandered too far from home and was struggling to survive. But the long-lost farm girl has no idea just how far out she’ll go. The cyborg cowboys of Carbon County have fought for each other, for love, and for Earth itself. But the consortium they escaped never stopped seeking them. Now every star they see from Big Sky Country is in danger, and only a lonely Theta and the saloon girl he kissed once upon a time might save us.
Author : Daniel H. Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385541791
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Clockwork Dynasty written by Daniel H. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ingenious thriller that follows a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries—from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. "[A] fantastic hybrid of Highlander and The Terminator…. It reads like classic steampunk on steroids." —Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player Two Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past… Russia, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin, the tsar’s loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time, possessed with uncanny power, and destined to serve great empires. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries. The Clockwork Dynasty seamlessly interweaves past and present, exploring a race of beings designed to live by ironclad principles, yet constantly searching for meaning. As June plunges deeper into their world, her choices will ultimately determine their survival or extermination. Richly-imagined and heart-pounding, Daniel H. Wilson’s novel expertly draws on his robotics and science background, combining exquisitely drawn characters with visionary technology—and riveting action.
Author : Ali Shokri
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788035062
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Passion of Trees written by Ali Shokri and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Passion of Trees is a collection of photographs taken in Iran and Azerbaijan’s stunning nature. However, this is a collection of nature photographs with a difference. Over the years, Ali has witnessed the beauty of the forests that he has loved since his childhood severely decline. As the number of roads and dams have increased, and more and more of the forests have been destroyed, the situation has become increasingly desperate. “To me, each tree, like a human being, has a tale to tell. When a tree dies, a whole story is interrupted, a destiny is altered for the worse. I feel as if the trees, bundled in the back of trucks, are cursing us with their broken hands, wounded faces and severed roots.” The Passion of Trees is Ali’s stark reminder that the natural world deserves our care. Through his photography, Ali encourages viewers to consider the world around them and to look upon nature with a different perspective, to consider the very real possibility that without swift action, the devastating effects of climate change and the decline of countless animals and plants.
Author : Tyler Green
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377532
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Carleton Watkins written by Tyler Green and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] fascinating and indispensable book."—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018—The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing, 2018 California Book Awards Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) is widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most influential artist of his era. He is best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. His photographs of Yosemite were exhibited in New York for the first time in 1862, as news of the Union’s disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg was landing in newspapers and while the Matthew Brady Studio’s horrific photographs of Antietam were on view. Watkins’s work tied the West to Northern cultural traditions and played a key role in pledging the once-wavering West to Union. Motivated by Watkins’s pictures, Congress would pass legislation, signed by Abraham Lincoln, that preserved Yosemite as the prototypical “national park,” the first such act of landscape preservation in the world. Carleton Watkins: Making the West American includes the first history of the birth of the national park concept since pioneering environmental historian Hans Huth’s landmark 1948 “Yosemite: The Story of an Idea.” Watkins’s photographs helped shape America’s idea of the West, and helped make the West a full participant in the nation. His pictures of California, Oregon, and Nevada, as well as modern-day Washington, Utah, and Arizona, not only introduced entire landscapes to America but were important to the development of American business, finance, agriculture, government policy, and science. Watkins’s clients, customers, and friends were a veritable “who’s who” of America’s Gilded Age, and his connections with notable figures such as Collis P. Huntington, John and Jessie Benton Frémont, Eadweard Muybridge, Frederick Billings, John Muir, Albert Bierstadt, and Asa Gray reveal how the Gilded Age helped make today’s America. Drawing on recent scholarship and fresh archival discoveries, Tyler Green reveals how an artist didn’t just reflect his time, but acted as an agent of influence. This telling of Watkins’s story will fascinate anyone interested in American history; the West; and how art and artists impacted the development of American ideas, industry, landscape, conservation, and politics.
Author : David J. Skal
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393045826
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Screams of Reason written by David J. Skal and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Hollywood Gothic" and "The Monster Show" comes the definitive book on the men in white coats who haunt our technological dreams and nightmares: mad scientists. 100 photos. College lectures.
