Visual sense : a cultural reader / edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Kaushik Bhaumik.
Material type: TextSeries: Sensory formations seriesPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008Description: xiii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1845207408
- 9781845207403
- 1845207416
- 9781845207410
- Cultural reader
- 152.14 22
- GN452.5 .V578 2008
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152.14 PYL Things and places : how the mind connects with the world / | 152.14 SEE Seeing spatial form / | 152.14 VIS Visual processes in reading and reading disabilities / | 152.14 VIS Visual sense : a cultural reader / | 152.14 VIS Visual perception from a computer graphics perspective / | 152.14 WAR Information visualization : perception for design / | 152.14 WAR Visual thinking : for design / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-454) and index.
Part 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Visual Sense and Cultures of Sight: An Introduction -- Part 2. Labyrinth -- 2.1. Section Introduction -- 2.2. The Intertwining-the Chiasm / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- 2.3. Labyrinthine Complexities: The Ottoman Harem as Seen by Western Orientalists / Alain Grosrichard -- 2.4. The Blind in the Early Christian World / Mosche Barasch -- 2.5. Seeing and Feeling in the Middle Ages / Suzannah Biernoff -- 2.6. The Light of Wangarr / Howard Morphy -- 2.7. Corpore Obscuro: Meditation on the Dead in Thailand / Alan Klima -- 2.8. The Imaginary Body: The Grotesque / Susan Stewart -- 2.9. Lifting the Veil: Shared Cultural Values of Control / Patrice Caldwell -- 2.10. Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike / Jane Gaines -- Part 3. Orderings -- 3.1. Section Introduction -- 3.2. Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston -- 3.3. Scientific Seeing: Commodities, Curiosities, and Anthropological Objects / Andrew Zimmerman -- 3.4. Science, Sight and the Ordering of Colonial Societies / Fernando Feliu -- 3.5. Gossip and the Creation of Cinematic Space / Rachel Dwyer -- 3.6. The Films of Fritz Lang / Tom Gunning -- 3.7. Viewer's View: Looking at Pictures / Gulam Mohammed Sheikh -- 3.8. An Andean Cosmology / Constance Classen -- 3.9. Witness of History: Student Photography and reformasi Politics in Indonesia / Karen Strassler -- 3.10. The Naming of a Heroine / Norma Field -- Part 4. Creating -- 4.1. Section Introduction -- 4.2. Photography, Elegance and the Aesthetics of Citizenship / Liam Buckley -- 4.3. Akira, Postmodernismand Resistance / Isolde Standish -- 4.4. Patriotism and Nationalism: The Face of Consensus: Mid-Twentieth Century and the Image of Jesus / David Morgan -- 4.5. The Illumination of Christ in the Kalahari Desert / Paul Landau -- 4.6. Quetzalcoatl's Mirror / Lois Parkinson Zamora -- 4.7. Photographs, Orality and History / Elizabeth Edwards -- 4.8. Sound Film-Worthy of the Name / Michel Chion -- 4.9. Cinema and History: Jean-Luc Godard in Conversation with Youssef Ishaghpour / Jean-Luc Godard -- 4.10. Madonna's Revenge / Annalee Newitz -- 4.11. A Fascist Theme Park / Marla S. Stone -- Part 5. Ruptures -- 5.1. Section Introduction -- 5.2. The Railway Journey: Panoramic Travel / Wolfgang Schivelbusch -- 5.3. The Secrets of Gas / Lynda Nead -- 5.4. Supermodernity: From Places to Non-Places / Marc Auge -- 5.5. Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye / Linda Nochlin -- 5.6. The Wicked Queen: Marie-Antoinette / Chantal Thomas -- 5.7. Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm and the Museum / Finbarr Barry Flood -- 5.8. The Creation of a Tibetan Modernist: The Painting of Gonkar Gyantso / Clare Harris -- 5.9. Extraordinary Vision and the Two Sides of Cloth / Elisha P. Renne -- 5.10. The Spiritual History of Ice / Eric G. Wilson -- Part 6. Extensions -- 6.1. Section Introduction -- 6.2. The Eye of the Storm: Visual Perception and the Weather / Tim Ingold -- 6.3. Basinjom and the Witches / Robert Faris Thompson -- 6.4. The Cultural Reception of Early Cinema in Russia / Yuri Tsivian -- 6.5. Haptic Cinema / Laura U. Marks -- 6.6. Chris Marker: Memories of the Future / Catherine Lupton -- 6.7. What Do Pictures Want Now: Rural Consumers of Images in India / Christopher Pinney -- 6.8. Surgical Vision and Digital Culture / Jan Eric Olsen -- 6.9. In the Service of Ben Comun: Visions of Good and Bad Government in Siena / Timothy Hyman -- 6.10. Intimate Immensity / Gaston Bachelard.
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