The Power of the Image
Emotion, Expression, Explanation
Published on 25. September 2014
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-3-631-64713-4 (ISBN)
Description
We think primarily in images, and only secondarily in words, while both the image and the word are preceded by the bodily, the visceral, the muscular. This holds even for mathematical thinking. It is the entire motor system, including facial expressions and bodily gestures, that underlies not just emotions but also abstract thought. Communication, too, is a primordially visual task, spoken and written language only gradually supplementing and even supplanting the pictorial. Writing liberates, but also enslaves; after centuries of a dominantly verbal culture, today the ease of producing and accessing digital images amounts to a homecoming of the visual, with the almost limitless online availability of our textual heritage completing the educational revolution of the 21st century.
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Persons
András Benedek is Professor and Head at the Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has published several papers on human resource development issues.
Kristóf Nyíri is Professor of Philosophy at the same Department. His main fields of research are the philosophy of images and the philosophy of time.
Content
Contents: Andras Benedek: Preface - Sybille Kraemer: Trace, Writing, Diagram: Reflections on Spatiality, Intuition, Graphical Practices and Thinking - Valeria Giardino: Diagramming: Connecting Cognitive Systems to Improve Reasoning - Janos Tanacs: The Visually Explorative Method of Janos Bolyai in the Formation of Absolute Geometry - Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen: A Road to the Philosophy of Iconic Communication - Petra Aczel: Expressivity and Emotion in Visionary Rhetoric - James J. Kimble: Soldier and Saviour: Visual Propaganda, Serial Narrativity, and the Case of the Kid in Upper 4 - Pawel Rybszleger: Pictorial and Textual Communication within the Scope of Citizen Journalism in Social Media - Agnes Veszelszki: Information Visualization: Infographics from a Linguistic Point of View - Trischa Goodnow: Light from the Middle East: The Real versus Imagined in Contemporary Photography - Monika Jovanovic: Seeing Paintings As They Are: Cognitivity of Aesthetic Qualities - Ewa Schreiber: <<Silence Filled with Sound>>: Spatial and Visual Metaphors in Raymond Murray Schafer's Idea of Soundscape - Andrea Karpati/Tuende Simon: Symbolization in Child Art: Creation and Interpretation of Visual Metaphors - Judit Hortovanyi: Visual Representation as Self-expression in Pedagogical Practice: Possible Explanations of Adolescents' Symbol Drawings - James E. Katz/Daniel Halpern: An Eye towards the Future: A Binational Survey of Attitudes toward Google Glass - Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos/Pirkko Oittinen/Balazs Tereki: Computational Aesthetics for Rendering Virtual Scenes on 3D Stereoscopic Displays - Andras Benedek: Visual Education: Old and New Dilemmas - Ian W. King: Expression and the Body - Zsuzsanna Kondor: Pictorial Representations and the Nature of Their Subjects - Daniel L. Golden: Face to Face: Towards a New Sincerity - Kristof Nyiri: Image and Time in the Theory of Gestures.