Visual sense : a cultural reader /
Visual sense : a cultural reader /
Cultural reader
edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Kaushik Bhaumik.
- xiii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Sensory formations, 1741-4725 .
- Sensory formations series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-454) and index.
Introduction -- Visual Sense and Cultures of Sight: An Introduction -- Labyrinth -- Section Introduction -- The Intertwining-the Chiasm / Labyrinthine Complexities: The Ottoman Harem as Seen by Western Orientalists / The Blind in the Early Christian World / Seeing and Feeling in the Middle Ages / The Light of Wangarr / Corpore Obscuro: Meditation on the Dead in Thailand / The Imaginary Body: The Grotesque / Lifting the Veil: Shared Cultural Values of Control / Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike / Orderings -- Section Introduction -- Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment / Scientific Seeing: Commodities, Curiosities, and Anthropological Objects / Science, Sight and the Ordering of Colonial Societies / Gossip and the Creation of Cinematic Space / The Films of Fritz Lang / Viewer's View: Looking at Pictures / An Andean Cosmology / Witness of History: Student Photography and reformasi Politics in Indonesia / The Naming of a Heroine / Creating -- Section Introduction -- Photography, Elegance and the Aesthetics of Citizenship / Akira, Postmodernismand Resistance / Patriotism and Nationalism: The Face of Consensus: Mid-Twentieth Century and the Image of Jesus / The Illumination of Christ in the Kalahari Desert / Quetzalcoatl's Mirror / Photographs, Orality and History / Sound Film-Worthy of the Name / Cinema and History: Jean-Luc Godard in Conversation with Youssef Ishaghpour / Madonna's Revenge / A Fascist Theme Park / Ruptures -- Section Introduction -- The Railway Journey: Panoramic Travel / The Secrets of Gas / Supermodernity: From Places to Non-Places / Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye / The Wicked Queen: Marie-Antoinette / Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm and the Museum / The Creation of a Tibetan Modernist: The Painting of Gonkar Gyantso / Extraordinary Vision and the Two Sides of Cloth / The Spiritual History of Ice / Extensions -- Section Introduction -- The Eye of the Storm: Visual Perception and the Weather / Basinjom and the Witches / The Cultural Reception of Early Cinema in Russia / Haptic Cinema / Chris Marker: Memories of the Future / What Do Pictures Want Now: Rural Consumers of Images in India / Surgical Vision and Digital Culture / In the Service of Ben Comun: Visions of Good and Bad Government in Siena / Intimate Immensity / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Alain Grosrichard -- Mosche Barasch -- Suzannah Biernoff -- Howard Morphy -- Alan Klima -- Susan Stewart -- Patrice Caldwell -- Jane Gaines -- Lorraine Daston -- Andrew Zimmerman -- Fernando Feliu -- Rachel Dwyer -- Tom Gunning -- Gulam Mohammed Sheikh -- Constance Classen -- Karen Strassler -- Norma Field -- Liam Buckley -- Isolde Standish -- David Morgan -- Paul Landau -- Lois Parkinson Zamora -- Elizabeth Edwards -- Michel Chion -- Jean-Luc Godard -- Annalee Newitz -- Marla S. Stone -- Wolfgang Schivelbusch -- Lynda Nead -- Marc Auge -- Linda Nochlin -- Chantal Thomas -- Finbarr Barry Flood -- Clare Harris -- Elisha P. Renne -- Eric G. Wilson -- Tim Ingold -- Robert Faris Thompson -- Yuri Tsivian -- Laura U. Marks -- Catherine Lupton -- Christopher Pinney -- Jan Eric Olsen -- Timothy Hyman -- Gaston Bachelard. Part 1. 1.1. Part 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 2.6. 2.7. 2.8. 2.9. 2.10. Part 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 3.8. 3.9. 3.10. Part 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6. 4.7. 4.8. 4.9. 4.10. 4.11. Part 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 5.6. 5.7. 5.8. 5.9. 5.10. Part 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6. 6.7. 6.8. 6.9. 6.10.
1845207408 9781845207403 1845207416 9781845207410
Visual perception--Cross-cultural studies
GN452.5 / .V578 2008
152.14
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-454) and index.
Introduction -- Visual Sense and Cultures of Sight: An Introduction -- Labyrinth -- Section Introduction -- The Intertwining-the Chiasm / Labyrinthine Complexities: The Ottoman Harem as Seen by Western Orientalists / The Blind in the Early Christian World / Seeing and Feeling in the Middle Ages / The Light of Wangarr / Corpore Obscuro: Meditation on the Dead in Thailand / The Imaginary Body: The Grotesque / Lifting the Veil: Shared Cultural Values of Control / Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike / Orderings -- Section Introduction -- Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment / Scientific Seeing: Commodities, Curiosities, and Anthropological Objects / Science, Sight and the Ordering of Colonial Societies / Gossip and the Creation of Cinematic Space / The Films of Fritz Lang / Viewer's View: Looking at Pictures / An Andean Cosmology / Witness of History: Student Photography and reformasi Politics in Indonesia / The Naming of a Heroine / Creating -- Section Introduction -- Photography, Elegance and the Aesthetics of Citizenship / Akira, Postmodernismand Resistance / Patriotism and Nationalism: The Face of Consensus: Mid-Twentieth Century and the Image of Jesus / The Illumination of Christ in the Kalahari Desert / Quetzalcoatl's Mirror / Photographs, Orality and History / Sound Film-Worthy of the Name / Cinema and History: Jean-Luc Godard in Conversation with Youssef Ishaghpour / Madonna's Revenge / A Fascist Theme Park / Ruptures -- Section Introduction -- The Railway Journey: Panoramic Travel / The Secrets of Gas / Supermodernity: From Places to Non-Places / Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye / The Wicked Queen: Marie-Antoinette / Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm and the Museum / The Creation of a Tibetan Modernist: The Painting of Gonkar Gyantso / Extraordinary Vision and the Two Sides of Cloth / The Spiritual History of Ice / Extensions -- Section Introduction -- The Eye of the Storm: Visual Perception and the Weather / Basinjom and the Witches / The Cultural Reception of Early Cinema in Russia / Haptic Cinema / Chris Marker: Memories of the Future / What Do Pictures Want Now: Rural Consumers of Images in India / Surgical Vision and Digital Culture / In the Service of Ben Comun: Visions of Good and Bad Government in Siena / Intimate Immensity / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Alain Grosrichard -- Mosche Barasch -- Suzannah Biernoff -- Howard Morphy -- Alan Klima -- Susan Stewart -- Patrice Caldwell -- Jane Gaines -- Lorraine Daston -- Andrew Zimmerman -- Fernando Feliu -- Rachel Dwyer -- Tom Gunning -- Gulam Mohammed Sheikh -- Constance Classen -- Karen Strassler -- Norma Field -- Liam Buckley -- Isolde Standish -- David Morgan -- Paul Landau -- Lois Parkinson Zamora -- Elizabeth Edwards -- Michel Chion -- Jean-Luc Godard -- Annalee Newitz -- Marla S. Stone -- Wolfgang Schivelbusch -- Lynda Nead -- Marc Auge -- Linda Nochlin -- Chantal Thomas -- Finbarr Barry Flood -- Clare Harris -- Elisha P. Renne -- Eric G. Wilson -- Tim Ingold -- Robert Faris Thompson -- Yuri Tsivian -- Laura U. Marks -- Catherine Lupton -- Christopher Pinney -- Jan Eric Olsen -- Timothy Hyman -- Gaston Bachelard. Part 1. 1.1. Part 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 2.6. 2.7. 2.8. 2.9. 2.10. Part 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 3.8. 3.9. 3.10. Part 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6. 4.7. 4.8. 4.9. 4.10. 4.11. Part 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 5.6. 5.7. 5.8. 5.9. 5.10. Part 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6. 6.7. 6.8. 6.9. 6.10.
1845207408 9781845207403 1845207416 9781845207410
Visual perception--Cross-cultural studies
GN452.5 / .V578 2008
152.14