Category: Art

By Adriaan Van Maanen

By Celia Lury

In a desirable account of ways know-how is changing our realization, Celia Lury exhibits how the manipulation of photographic photos and methods of seeing can so redefine the relation among attention, the physique and reminiscence as to create a 'prosthetic tradition' whose capacities either expand and threaten our humanity.
We dwell in a society within which a few stories will be falsely implanted within the person whereas others are kept in video data of pictures, during which the powers of caricature superheroes holiday during the obstacles of time and area. utilizing the examples of photo-therapy, kin albums, Benetton ads campaigns, the phenomenon of fake reminiscence syndrome and the 'lives' of comic strip characters this e-book argues that the 'eyes' made to be had by way of modern visible applied sciences contain no longer easily particular methods of seeing, but additionally methods of existence.

By A.-M. Sankovitch

В трудах по архитектуре, приблизительно с 1830 г. и до настоящего времени, многие здания рассматриваются как объекты двойственной природы: стиль самого сооружения - одного периода, а стиль украшений - другого. На примере одного из таких памятников - St. Eustache в Париже - анализируются скрытые функции параметра "конструкция/украшения" и его влияние на современные воззрения.

By Robert A. Nelson

By Dame Janet Ritterman, Gerald Bast (auth.), Dame Janet Ritterman, Gerald Bast, Jürgen Mittelstraß (eds.)

By Jay Fellows

Professor Fellows offers a map of Ruskin's brain because it shifts from stipulations of mastery to insanity. In his research, he examines and transcribes the ways that Ruskin saw his dislocation of mind's eye and indicates how, within the very technique of disintegration; he used to be enabled through his strange genius to remodel the results on his language and conceptualization into new varieties of articulation less than pain.

Originally released in 1981.

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By Jan-Michael Brosi

By edited by Richard King ; with Ralph Croizier, Shengtian Zheng, and Scott Watson.

By Carmen Bonell