World of the Image, The (A Longman Topics Reader)
Published on 7. November 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-321-38882-7 (ISBN)
Description
Everywhere we look in today's world, images are pervasive; we are immersed in a world of images-and we are relying more and more on images to understand ourselves and our world. This brief, focused reader explores our reliance on images and the tools of analysis and description that we have to understand what we see.
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Content
Preface.
1. The Act of Seeing
Deborah Curtis, Seeing and Awareness
Denise Grady, The Vision Thing: Mainly in the Brain
Mark Prendergrast, When Babies Become Aware of Themselves
Annie Dillard, Seeing
James Elkins, How to Look at Nothing
2. Mirroring Ourselves
Daniel Goleman, Equation for Beauty Emerges in Studies
Susan Bardo, Never Just Pictures
Philippe Liotard, The Body Jigsaw
Donna M. Wells, Visual History and Afican American Families of the Nineteenth Century
Gina Kolata & Ivor Peterson, New Jersey Trying a New Way for Witnesses to Pick Suspects
3. The Visual Surround
Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Perfect Icon for an Imperfect Postliterate World
Thomas J. Campanella, Eden by Wire: Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape
Ann Marie Seward Barry, Media Images and Violence
Thomas Hine, Notable Quotables: Why Images Become Icons
Robin Landa, Speaking Brand
4. Images and Their Uses
Robert Hughes, Behold the Stone Age
Edmund Carpenter, Silent Music and Invisible Art
David Gelman, Dreams on the Couch
Douglas S. Fox, The Inner Savant
Oliver Sacks, In the River of Consciousness
5. Pictures That Prod
Deborah Solomon, Once Again, Patriotic Themes Ring True as Art
Alan Robbins, Dire Image: The Art of Persuasion
Richard Goldstein, Cartoon Wars
Nina Willdorf, Reality's Flight
Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
6. The Image as Reality
Thomas Wheeler, The Digital Media Landscape: Liquid Imagery, Shaky Credibility
Ada Louise Huxtable, Living with the Fake and Learning to Like It
Bob Berman, Colorizing the Cosmos
Ernst Gombrich, Pygmalion's Power
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechnical Reproduction
1. The Act of Seeing
Deborah Curtis, Seeing and Awareness
Denise Grady, The Vision Thing: Mainly in the Brain
Mark Prendergrast, When Babies Become Aware of Themselves
Annie Dillard, Seeing
James Elkins, How to Look at Nothing
2. Mirroring Ourselves
Daniel Goleman, Equation for Beauty Emerges in Studies
Susan Bardo, Never Just Pictures
Philippe Liotard, The Body Jigsaw
Donna M. Wells, Visual History and Afican American Families of the Nineteenth Century
Gina Kolata & Ivor Peterson, New Jersey Trying a New Way for Witnesses to Pick Suspects
3. The Visual Surround
Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Perfect Icon for an Imperfect Postliterate World
Thomas J. Campanella, Eden by Wire: Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape
Ann Marie Seward Barry, Media Images and Violence
Thomas Hine, Notable Quotables: Why Images Become Icons
Robin Landa, Speaking Brand
4. Images and Their Uses
Robert Hughes, Behold the Stone Age
Edmund Carpenter, Silent Music and Invisible Art
David Gelman, Dreams on the Couch
Douglas S. Fox, The Inner Savant
Oliver Sacks, In the River of Consciousness
5. Pictures That Prod
Deborah Solomon, Once Again, Patriotic Themes Ring True as Art
Alan Robbins, Dire Image: The Art of Persuasion
Richard Goldstein, Cartoon Wars
Nina Willdorf, Reality's Flight
Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
6. The Image as Reality
Thomas Wheeler, The Digital Media Landscape: Liquid Imagery, Shaky Credibility
Ada Louise Huxtable, Living with the Fake and Learning to Like It
Bob Berman, Colorizing the Cosmos
Ernst Gombrich, Pygmalion's Power
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechnical Reproduction