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Author : Joseph Frederic Berg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Place of Vision in Modern Culture written by Joseph Frederic Berg and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780851518213
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The Valley of Vision written by Arthur Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199250134
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Vanities of the Eye written by Stuart Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and fascinating book, Stuart Clark investigates the cultural history of the senses in early modern Europe. At a time in which the nature and reliability of human vision was a focus for debate in medicine, art theory, science, and philosophy, there was an explosion of interest in the truth (or otherwise) of miracles, dreams, magic, and witchcraft. Was seeing really believing? Vanities of the Eye wonderfully illustrates how this was woven into contemporary works such as Macbeth - deeply concerned with the dangers of visual illusion - and exposes early modern theories on the relationship between the real and the virtual.
Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520961994
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Forge of Vision written by David Morgan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religions teach their adherents how to see and feel at the same time; learning to see is not a disembodied process but one hammered from the forge of human need, social relations, and material practice. David Morgan argues that the history of religions may therefore be studied through the lens of their salient visual themes. The Forge of Vision tells the history of Christianity from the sixteenth century through the present by selecting the visual themes of faith that have profoundly influenced its development. After exploring how distinctive Catholic and Protestant visual cultures emerged in the early modern period, Morgan examines a variety of Christian visual practices, ranging from the imagination, visions of nationhood, the likeness of Jesus, the material life of words, and the role of modern art as a spiritual quest, to the importance of images for education, devotion, worship, and domestic life. An insightful, informed presentation of how Christianity has shaped and continues to shape the modern world, this work is a must-read for scholars and students across fields of religious studies, history, and art history.
Author : Gavin Ortlund
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493432451
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't written by Gavin Ortlund and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has never been more important to articulate the wonder and enchantment of the Christian message. Yet the traditional approaches of apologetics are often outmoded in an age of profound disenchantment and distraction, unable to meet this pressing need. This winsome apologetics book for a new generation makes the case that Christianity offers a compelling explanatory framework for making sense of our world. Pastor and writer Gavin Ortlund believes it is essential to appeal not only to the mind but also to the heart and the imagination as we articulate the beauty of the gospel. Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't reimagines four classical theistic arguments--cosmological, teleological, moral, and Christological--making a cumulative case for God as the best framework for understanding the storied nature of reality. The book suggests that Christian theism can explain such things as the elegance of math, the beauty of music, and the value of love. It is suitable for use in classes yet accessibly written, making it a perfect resource for churches and small groups.
Author : Jonathan Crary
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531078
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Techniques of the Observer written by Jonathan Crary and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992-02-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : H. Richard Niebuhr
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061300039
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Christ and Culture written by H. Richard Niebuhr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1956-09-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist who is considered Niebuhr’s contemporary successor, poses the challenge of being true to Christ in a materialistic age to an entirely new generation of Christian readers.
Author : Ian Heywood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134729227
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Interpreting Visual Culture written by Ian Heywood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, it presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture. Among topics covered are: * the visual rhetoric of modernity * the drawings of Bonnard * recent feminist art * practices and perception in arts and ethics.
Author : Kevin Robins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134758987
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Into the Image written by Kevin Robins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jonathan Crary
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531993
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Suspensions of Perception written by Jonathan Crary and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature of modern attention, which was both a fundamental condition of individual freedom, creativity, and experience and a central element in the efficient functioning of economic and disciplinary institutions as well as the emerging spaces of mass consumption and spectacle. Crary approaches these issues through multiple analyses of single works by three key modernist painters—Manet, Seurat, and Cezanne—who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representational practices. Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture.
Author : Kevin Robins
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415145763
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Into the Image written by Kevin Robins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Image examines visual technology sociologically and, in so doing, rejects the fashionable idea that the new visual technologies are displacing the real.
Author : Chris Jenks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351537512
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Visual Culture written by Chris Jenks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision and truth. A major preoccupation of modernity and central to an understadning of the postmodern, 'vision' and the 'visual' are emergent themes across sociology, cultural studies and critical theory in the visual arts. Visual Culture will prove an indispensable guide to the field.
Author : James D. Bratt
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802867103
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book By the Vision of Another World written by James D. Bratt and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book samples the rich variety of worship practices in American history to show how worship can be a fruitful subject for historians to study and how past cases can enrich our understanding of worship today. By the Vision of Another World gathers highly regarded historians who usually are not read together because of the widely different subjects on which they typically work. Yet their essays all fit together here as they address how worship, work, and worldview converge and reinforce each other no matter what particular place, era, denomination, or ethnic/racial group is under consideration. The variety of methodologies and voices will appeal to a breadth of critical interests, while the consistently high quality of historical narrative will keep readers engaged.
Author : Jason Robison
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520976231
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Vision and Place written by Jason Robison and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colorado River Basin’s importance cannot be overstated. Its living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people, contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, and wide swaths of other public lands, and encompasses ancestral homelands of twenty-nine Native American tribes. John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran, explorer, scientist, and adept federal administrator, articulated a vision for Euro-American colonization of the “Arid Region” that has indelibly shaped the basin—a pattern that looms large not only in western history, but also in contemporary environmental and social policy. One hundred and fifty years after Powell’s epic 1869 Colorado River Exploring Expedition, this volume revisits Powell’s vision, examining its historical character and its relative influence on the Colorado River Basin’s cultural and physical landscape in modern times. In three parts, the volume unpacks Powell’s ideas on water, public lands, and Native Americans—ideas at once innovative, complex, and contradictory. With an eye toward climate change and a host of related challenges facing the basin, the volume turns to the future, reflecting on how—if at all—Powell’s legacy might inform our collective vision as we navigate a new “Great Unknown.”
Author : Hal Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565844612
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Vision and Visuality written by Hal Foster and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "Village Voice" Best Book of the Year, this seminal work presents new models of vision and examines modern theories of seeing in the context of contemporary critical practice. With contributions by: Norman Bryson Jonathan Crary Martin Jay Rosalind Krauss Jacqueline Rose Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.
Author : Ron Burnett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253116414
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Cultures of Vision written by Ron Burnett and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a very strong, thought-provoking [volume] . . . " —George Marcus As home photographs shift from the print format to digital technology and as video moves from the television screen to multimedia, it is crucial to develop new strategies of interpreting and analyzing these images. Visit the author's World Wide Web site: (2/19/03: Link is no longer active) http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/burnett/englishhome.html
Author : Nicholas J. Wade
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262731294
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (312 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of Vision written by Nicholas J. Wade and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-01-31 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated survey covers what Nicholas Wade calls the "observational era of vision," beginning with the Greek philosophers and ending with Wheatstone's description of the stereoscope in the late 1830s.
